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Years ago I realized that a hidden driver for the growth of cloud is this. The cloud is DRM, and almost uncrackable DRM at that since you have neither the code
by api 8y ago
Years ago I realized that a hidden driver for the growth of cloud is this. The cloud is DRM, and almost uncrackable DRM at that since you have neither the code nor the hardware.
- kemitchell 8y agoIf you haven’t already, do a search on FSF.org for “service as a software substitute”.
- aortenzi 8y agoSoftware and the control plane is the razor, compute resources are the blades. Amazon's software is its loss leader.
- halbritt 8y agoNot really. There's roughly a 50% premium vs raw EC2 instances for any RDS related service. The crux is keeping the operating cost below that delta.
- ZainRiz 8y agoBasically. The one who controls the servers is King. The code needed to run those servers is the secret sauce and a huge competitive advantage, but with open source software you're giving away the secret sauce and the business victory goes to the one with the most business friendly servers (There are many dimensions to "business friendly", a big one of which is "it's easy for us to start using this additional service since we're already paying this company for other services")