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Are there any big names running on the cloud? Especially on GAE and Amazon?

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According to Reuters:

British pest control to parcel delivery company Rentokil Initial has chosen Google to manage its electronic communications, making it the largest company to deploy Google's Apps worldwide to date.

(source: Rentokil to use Google's Apps cloud, biggest yet)

Colin Pickard
It looks like is more about using Google Apps (Docs, Email Spreadsheets etc) than GAE, but it is good to know anyway
kristof
+1  A: 

Buddy Poke:

http://files.meetup.com/1135107/BuddyPoke%5FAppEngine%5FStats.pdf

+1  A: 

FedEx is running on Appistry CloudIQ:

FexEx: Scale Without Fail

Brett McCann
A: 

BestBuy's giftag runs on google appengine http://blog.giftag.com/2009/01/26/giftaggoogle-app-engine-case-study/

dar
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Have a look at RightScale's Customer Testimonials and/or Case Studies.

SalesForces.com also has (and uses) its own cloud platform (Force.com). Check out Force.com success stories (for example the Dell story).

Pascal Thivent
+1  A: 

Azure is just getting started, but AWS has an extensive list of case studies here: http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/

sdcoder