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"[Google] competes with Amazon in a number of areas, particularly web services and big data." I believe Amazon treats web services and big data seriously, but
by ekanes 16y ago
"[Google] competes with Amazon in a number of areas, particularly web services and big data."
I believe Amazon treats web services and big data seriously, but IIRC they're well under 1% of revenues. These services are of particular interest to the HN crowd of course, but just wanted to point out that it's far from a core offering for them.
Amazon has become the incumbent in this space, which may have some value in the future, but it's entirely possible they're happily losing money on it at the moment.
- barrkel 16y agoThey might be 1% of revenues, but more interesting to my mind is what % of profits they are. One of the core motivations, as I understand it, was to utilize the excess capacity Amazon had built for peak seasonal activity. These sunk costs don't necessarily count against the EC2, S3 etc. revenue.