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>>Prove it. I had an argument with my last company about this very issue. If Amazon's primary business was video delivery, then that would make a lot of sense.
by tmptmp 10y ago
>>Prove it. I had an argument with my last company about this very issue. If Amazon's primary business was video delivery, then that would make a lot of sense. But where does Amazon's primary revenue stream actually come from? That's right, it's AWS.
Let me try. Earlier Amazon's primary business was selling books, then it "became" selling almost every object that can be legally sold, and now you are saying that it "is" AWS. What about tomorrow? Tomorrow, it easily may "become" selling videos too. With Amazon it's very much possible.
So, it's not just technical issue, it's a political/business issue too.
Of course, as you have said, they must take into consideration the trade-off. If the trade-off is more like "killing yourself under the technical burden of setting up a good network" vs "potentially allowing/helping Amazon to take advantage of your hosted service on their AWS and thus to become a future competitor" then they may go to AWS and/or other cloud provider(s).
edit: allowing/helping
- frik 10y agoMicrosoft's business shifted too. Long gone are the days they were a software vendor for end user. Nowadays they produce services and hardware products for enterprise customer. And end user are the product, their new subscription based Office and Win10 collects a lot of private data like key presses (keylogger), audio from microphone, scans documents and uploads unspecified tracking data in many encrypted TLS (phone home). And Microsoft is known to suddently compete with you. There is a rule, never compete with Microsoft, they have more money than you, they will make their competiting product/service/hardware available for less money than you could offer.
- corobo 10y agoOh come off it. You're going to have to back that one with sources.