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AWS was already low risk, since they started with idle platform capacity that they needed to have for holiday shopping bursts. You're proving my point. They go
by qeternity 10y ago
AWS was already low risk, since they started with idle platform capacity that they needed to have for holiday shopping bursts. You're proving my point. They go for very asymmetric return profiles. Selling books online is exactly the same. Using expensive retail space to sell goods that have few good substitutes between them is a really dumb proposition. The market for books was well established, so that wasn't risky.
Don't get me wrong, it's brilliant thinking and opportunity seeking. But it is not moonshot behavior.
- maxwell 10y ago"Real applications" (someone named off CMS, CRM, VoIP, groupware, helpdesk, and callcenter software above) hardly seem like moonshots.
- tgjsrkghruksd 10y agoRight, it's not like Amazon doesn't have big spend on all of these things for itself.
- qeternity 10y agoThe implication from OP is that those aren't "real applications". They are merely following in AWS footsteps ("hey, we had to build this anyway...maybe there's a 3rd party market for it").