Amazon seems to be trying to build a 100% proprietary global mainframe that runs everywhere. Up side: ease of use, ubiquity, big backer, scalability, etc. Dow

Amazon seems to be trying to build a 100% proprietary global mainframe that runs everywhere. Up side: ease of use, ubiquity, big backer, scalability, etc. Down side: absolute lock-in of everything to Amazon, privacy nightmare, and if Amazon screws up the world grinds to a halt. I predict their next move to be building their own fiber between all their data centers, effectively creating a proprietary managed Internet that they can defend against DDOS and similar attacks. Then they can also start partnering with ISPs, sidelining the mainstream Internet and pushing their own proprietary one.