3 ms·
Only if they are so efficient that after they get their cut, it's still more efficient than rolling your own. Because these cloud services have inherent lock-i
by throwaway13337 10y ago
Only if they are so efficient that after they get their cut, it's still more efficient than rolling your own.
Because these cloud services have inherent lock-in, they don't have enough incentive to keep margins low. Indeed, Amazon's margins are extremely high after factoring in bandwidth costs.
- cm2187 10y agoAgree, but that's my question. Does the savings achieved by these cloud providers more than offset their margin, or is the motivation to move to the cloud solely a return on capital / removing a distraction?
- acqq 10y agoIt seems that their motivation was enabling the use the "machine learning" as they say or the "Big Data Analytics" as the user threeseed recognized in his post here.