Amazon announces best holiday season ever

Amazon has done well during the holiday season as their track record shows.  With the debut of cool trendy products such as the Amazon Kindle, a wireless eBook reading device that connects to EVDO cell networks for updates and downloads that book worms go GaGa over, they’ve been hot this year over any previous year since founded in 1994.

TechCrunch has the stats, but here’s a brief overview:

Peak Items Order on a single day:

2008: 6.3M
2007: 5.4M

Items ordered per second:

2008: 72.9
2007: 62.5

These are some impressive numbers, and I’m sure with Amazon’s EC2 cloud computing platform, their website has no problems with traffic spikes.