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Is 5 petabytes as much as The Amazon.com's databases?

It's about 100 times as much as The Amazon.com's databases
The amount of The Amazon.com's databases is about 0.0413236 petabytes.
(largest databases only; 2005 figures)
Amazon.com maintains information on the millions of items sold on it's e-Commerce website and the websites of its affiliate companies, as well as information on customer orders and browsing history, and excerpts from nearly a quarter-billion books in databases totaling an estimated 0.0423154 petabytes of data. Amazon.com receives over 615 million visits to its US website each year.
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