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Why does Amazon need to kill any service. Even with their cloud platform, rack space, digital ocean and plenty of other providers are thriving and coming up.
by fma 10y ago
Why does Amazon need to kill any service. Even with their cloud platform, rack space, digital ocean and plenty of other providers are thriving and coming up.
- jhall1468 10y agoAWS is infrastructure as a service. Digital Ocean sells virtual private servers. They aren't even remotely the same product. I host a blog on DO for a few buck a month. My company hosts their entire infrastructure on AWS for 4 different applications. Apples and oranges.
- ownagefool 10y agoYou can do the same on DO, it's just slightly more involved, almost certainly less resiliant and they supply less PaaS options. In fact as an IaaS if you throw kubernetes at it, run ceph and put a little effort into getting autoscaling, then you have a knock-off cloud. Amazons value is that it's cheaper for a small company than hiring the people who can do this well and you can hire a generalist to glue it all together.
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- bdcravens 10y agoApples and oranges. You're talking about horizontal competitors in one industry, and significant cost centers in another.
- fma 10y agoWill the orange industry kill off the apple industry? No. Because there's such thing as competition. More than one company can survive and thrive in the same industry. That's my point.