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If they are just doing this out of spite it is so silly. Do they think Amazon is going to go broke now and pull out of retail? If they are paying more to anoth
by smegel 9y ago
If they are just doing this out of spite it is so silly. Do they think Amazon is going to go broke now and pull out of retail?
If they are paying more to another provider, they are making themselves less competitive in contrast to Amazon, although maybe Microsoft lured them with a discount on Azure.
- tehramz 9y agoI don't think it's silly at all. Why help find another branch of a competitor's business? Do you not think that Amazon doesn't use money generated by AWS to help expand their retail business? I'm actually shocked at the number of companies that use AWS even though Amazon is a direct competitor. Netflix comes to mind.
- smegel 9y agoYes but Targets contribution is hardly going to make that big a difference. OTOH the cost of moving cloud providers, if significant, is going to be an additional operational expense that would make them less competitive. It's like Apple buying chips from Samsung.
- statictype 9y agoIt's probably for safety and security reasons. Why would you put your valuable data on servers being hosted by a competitor? It's not like they don't have any other options either.
- smegel 9y agoPretty hard to imagine Amazon destroying the most profitable part of their business by doing something as stupid and illegal as that. But I can see why a company might still hold reservations nonetheless.