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Teams targeting this capability ought to consider how much specific information Amazon would be able to derive: utilization and revenue growth rates. We've see
by politician 10y ago
Teams targeting this capability ought to consider how much specific information Amazon would be able to derive: utilization and revenue growth rates. We've seen platform providers crowd out existing solutions on their platforms when a particular product becomes popular -- Twitter, and their treatment of developers on it's platform, is a classic example.
Through the lens of Twitter, AWS seems to be creating for itself the opportunity to benefit from this sort of third-party R&D on a massive scale.
- jpalomaki 10y agoOn the other hand, on Amazon scale you cat probably get pretty good idea about trending API services by just looking at the AWS DNS statistics (and/or some network level metrics) and Amazon Alexa stats.
- jononor 10y agoPopular does not neccesarily mean profitable though. If you can easily know whats profitable in the landscape, thats killer.
- tajen 10y ago"Accountant as a service. Free. Works worldwide. Select in which country you want to create your company: ..." would be a great value proposition for AWS startups ;) "We don't sell your data", it says, "we... only... use it internally."