5 ms·
Competition in the cloud space is a beautiful thing. I really hope we don't end up with Amazon being a monopoly provider. Now if they could all lower network
by wstrange 11y ago
Competition in the cloud space is a beautiful thing. I really hope we don't end up with Amazon being a monopoly provider.
Now if they could all lower network egress pricing I'd be really happy.
- jedberg 11y agoI doubt that will happen. Very few people list that as their deal breaker, and it's their entire business model. If egress were cheap you could easily load balance between providers.
- wickawic 11y ago"Cheapest cloud hosting service as a service"
- bedhead 11y agoMainframes: IBM - natural monopolist PC's: Microsoft/Intel - natural monopolists Mobile: Apple - natural monopolist Cloud: Amazon - .... (take a guess where this is going)
- frik 11y agoMobile: Google Android 70+% (Apple iOS is only 20% worldwide) Cloud: Amazon, then Digital Ocean is the second, than long nothing, ...(?)..., Azure, ...
- kbart 11y agoApple iOS is only 20% worldwide AFAIK, it's <15%.[0] 0. http://www.idc.com/prodserv/smartphone-market-share.jsp http://www.idc.com/prodserv/smartphone-market-share.jsp
- TheLogothete 11y ago>Cloud: Amazon, then Digital Ocean is the second, than long nothing, ...(?)..., Azure, ... Can you provide some metrics and sources for that?
- pjmlp 11y agoWho is using Digital Ocean in Europe?! It is all about AWS and Azure over here.
- _Codemonkeyism 11y agoSince they have a data center in Frankfurt we use it for some stuff. But on the edge for Hetzner vServers.
- bedhead 11y agoApple reaps 100% of the PROFITS. They are effectively a natural monopolist. Who cares about money-losing Android customers??? [praying I don't start some juvenile iOS/Android flame war] I've never asked this before but why did my post above get so many downvotes??? It's 100% true and not snarky or anything. I'm confused.