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Walmart is going to build the largest hosting company in the world?
by hacknat 10y ago
Walmart is going to build the largest hosting company in the world?
- ajamesm 10y agoIf you're a tech company, and your stack is so tightly coupled to Amazon that it represents an existential threat to your server fleet, you were never going to make it anyway.
- hacknat 10y agoBecause Netflix could migrate over night, right?
- hueving 10y agoYes, they should have a contingency plan to bring things onto another hosting provider within 1 or 2 days. Anything else is negligence from a business continuity perspective for a company that size. Companies plan for utilities to go out, which don't even have competition. It's insane to operate just hoping Amazon doesn't get hacked, freeze your account, experience a catastrophic failure, or just decide to quadruple the price overnight. If uptime has any relevance to your company at all, have (and test!) a process to move everything to another provider in a mostly automated fashion.
- justaman 10y agoDont forget their early adoption of database technology led to their rise.
- incongruity 10y agoThat's interesting – I actually hadn't heard that before but it makes for a notable story. Got a link?
- chuck8088 10y agohttps://www.healthcatalyst.com/wal-mart-birth-of-data-warehouse/ https://www.healthcatalyst.com/wal-mart-birth-of-data-wareho...
- maccard 10y agoMS already have Azure which would fill the gap I'm sure. There's also Google cloud compute.