Cloud computing is indeed lucrative, look how AWS saves Amazon(AWS generates almost 1B net income a single quarter right now). But the initial commitment is abs

Cloud computing is indeed lucrative, look how AWS saves Amazon(AWS generates almost 1B net income a single quarter right now). But the initial commitment is absolutely massive, and before they can really become competitive in cloud computing , they are probably going to lose a substantial chuck of money. Comparing to Google, Facebook is even more of an advertising and media company, wholesales might be what they want to dig in.