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I think you're right in that Amazon Machine Learning and Azure Machine Learning will never be drop-in replacements for eachother. However, I would argue that V
by Will_Do 10y ago
I think you're right in that Amazon Machine Learning and Azure Machine Learning will never be drop-in replacements for eachother.
However, I would argue that VPSs are already drop-in replacements and I bet (though I have no proof) that VPSs are the majority of the market. The cloud providers may not have a viable way to provide even the perception of vendor lock-in when it comes to VPSs.
Now it could be that prices and profits stay high anyways as the market is an oligopoly. The U.S. has experienced the same thing with mobile operators. This is also far from obvious though because entrance barriers for VPSs don't seem steep.
- mason55 10y agoSure, a basic VPS could be a drop-in replacement, but think of all the stuff that goes on with managing that. If you want to automate the creation of new servers then you have to script it or use something like CloudFormation or Troposphere. Either way you are immediately off the "drop-in replacement" path unless you build a middleware layer for your scripts. These guys make their money off the companies that need to be able to automate infrastructure and that stuff is becoming more, not less, fragmented.
- falsedan 10y agoTerraform works with whatever cloud provider https://www.terraform.io/intro/vs/cloudformation.html https://www.terraform.io/intro/vs/cloudformation.html hint hint
- discodave 10y agoEven bigger than VPS is storage, which is the closest thing you will get to a commodity/drop in replacement in the cloud. It was recently reported that Apple was spending hundreds of millions of dollars on S3 (before they switched). I think it's safe to assume that a couple of billion dollars of AWS revenue is cheap commodity storage.... which has low switching costs.