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On the flip side, I believe Amazon counts their Office and Drop/Box competitors under AWS as well so it may not be as apples to oranges as first perceived.
by awad 8y ago
On the flip side, I believe Amazon counts their Office and Drop/Box competitors under AWS as well so it may not be as apples to oranges as first perceived.
- fermienrico 8y agoI think Dropbox uses their own infrastructure.
- swampthinker 8y agoHe means Amazon lists Dropbox storage as a competitor to AWS storage services.
- jkchu 8y agoI think GP comment actually meant that AWS has their own products that compete with similar products like Drop/Box and Office and they include revenue from those products as part of their AWS revenue.
- awad 8y agoYes, that's what I meant. Haven't figured out a clever way to say Dropbox + Box, Drop/Box seems OK. I'm also led to believe they compete with email as well.
- duskwuff 8y agoI suspect there are a lot fewer customers for Amazon WorkDocs / WorkMail / WorkSpaces than for Microsoft's equivalents, though. I've certainly never heard of anyone using them.
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- basilgohar 8y agoThis is, in fact, the first time I've heard of them, and we use AWS to host our production services!
- nunez 8y agoWorkSpaces are popular for big companies that use VDI to manage their workstations.
- Spooky23 8y agoIn that scenario, the Microsoft numbers are even more mysterious as OneDrive for Business just another non-billable component of SharePoint that's consuming that storage, which AFAIK isn't Azure storage, but in dedicated Office 365 nodes. The Amazon Drive service AFAIK is just a frontend to S3. The interesting thing about O365 is that it combines a very valuable licensing cash stream with a variety of services. The story that Microsoft SEs used to sort of tell a few years back was that Microsoft needed so many spinning disks to support Exchange workload IOPS that they had ridiculous amounts of "free" storage available for low-IO workloads like SharePoint/OneDrive. No idea if that was true years ago or is true today.
- cududa 8y agoDon’t think Amazon is as much as a competitor here. However, Google Cloud does roll in all GApps revenue into their Cloud reporting
- sjellis 8y agoOffice is one of Microsoft's most lucrative lines, whilst I doubt that most AWS users pay much attention to WorkMail/WorkDocs. Many big companies play games with reporting numbers, and this is just a rather transparent example. Unfortunately, the fact that it got the Forbes story rewards that this kind of trick.