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The amount of denial in this thread is hilarious. Any level at which profit is made, you can assume Amazon will reach. They already have several large offering
by nebabyte 10y ago
The amount of denial in this thread is hilarious.
Any level at which profit is made, you can assume Amazon will reach. They already have several large offerings at the application level, and there's no reason for them not to build or acquire further applications.
You didn't think that "growth potential" of theirs' was going to stay in the corner selling books, did you?
- adventured 10y agoI agree. They've already done it over and over and over again with AWS. The article is casting a premise that has never been the case: AWS has always been in the real application business. Practically every expansion of AWS has involved adding real applications. Even Prime storage is a 'real application,' that sits on top of AWS, that competes in part with Dropbox and others. All tech platforms devour the surrounding territory if they can. The last 40 years of tech history is littered with the corpses of formerly successful niche products/companies/services that were wiped out by expansive platforms. Just go down the list of AWS services: CDN = real application Database products = several real applications (just ask Oracle, who is spooked by AWS) DNS service = real application Analytics = several real applications Chime, Workdocs, WorkMail = real applications Messaging = several real applications And on it goes. So what, they won't get into CRM? Of course they will. Amazon will use AWS to push into high margin enterprise software, specifically designed to target Oracle, Salesforce, et al. Because why not, the margins are there to be attacked. Anything that AWS gets near is a target in the next decade.