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I hope not. Over-consolidation of this space would be bad for everyone as it would open up the potential for Amazon to monopolize the Internet core. We will st

• vacri 10y ago
  AWS is already the monopoly. A couple of years ago it was reported that they were bigger than the next 17 competitors combined.
  • api 10y ago
    That's a dominant player but not a monopoly. The danger is that we'll get to the point that >90% of Internet traffic in the US flows via AWS or uses something in AWS. At that point AWS owns the Internet and can start consolidating and shutting out other data centers and providers. It puts concepts like "peering" at risk. That would be a monopoly. There would be only one way to host, at least for anything serious. A hard oligopoly scenario with Google, Microsoft, and Amazon would not be much better. We want there to be many smaller players.