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Even LEGO sells mass-produced kits. And sure, kids predominantly play with LEGOS by building their own things. But when it comes to toys, LEGO isn't the only t
by nebabyte 10y ago
Even LEGO sells mass-produced kits.
And sure, kids predominantly play with LEGOS by building their own things. But when it comes to toys, LEGO isn't the only thing out there. And which helicopter would you think kids play with - the make-believe one that they have to wave around and pretend flies, or the mass-produced quadcopter that actually flies?
Just because Amazon does what it does now well doesn't mean it can't or shouldn't keep expanding. Quite the opposite - if they're able to optimize processes so well at the levels they work at, why not move up to higher levels and continue the growth?
- paulddraper 10y agoThe analogy falls apart because Legos blocks are not made of smaller Lego blocks. AWS does put things together. E.g. Autoscaling, RDS, Spot Fleets, OpsWorks Nothing you couldn't do with their more basic pieces. But these are still reusable and composable.
- iainmerrick 10y agoAnd which helicopter would you think kids play with - the make-believe one that they have to wave around and pretend flies, or the mass-produced quadcopter that actually flies? Mostly the Lego one. :)
- sitharus 10y agoThe pre-built one only flies. The lego one can be a submarine, turn in to a rocket, shoot lasers, arrack your brother... much more fun! Same is true of AWS, I'm just older.