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Once enough people like you consider moving over, Amazon will just rejigger the pricing to not make it happen. It's not like Google has some kind of insurmounta
by melted 11y ago
Once enough people like you consider moving over, Amazon will just rejigger the pricing to not make it happen. It's not like Google has some kind of insurmountable capex or opex advantage. They just don't worry about the margins as much. Yet.
- Johnny555 11y agoThat's what I'm counting on -- Amazon and Google (and maybe Azure) will keep each other in check - if either one gets too much more expensive than the other, then customers will shift and the more expensive service will have to drop prices. It's a free market that works.
- melted 11y agoEveryone keeps underestimating Azure, and yet they'll be the only ones making money when price wars erupt and margins evaporate. They're the only ones who have unique offerings (Office, Exchange, MS SQL, Sharepoint, Dynamics, AD/Enterprise management, etc) that enterprise customers already use outside the cloud, and they're the only ones with a massive sales channel into small to medium businesses. Much like it took a decade and billions of dollars for Amazon to build the distribution network, building the stack Microsoft has also takes decades and billions, and there's also an entrenched competitor now: Microsoft, so no one is even going to try.