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Probably cuz Walmart refuses to use AWS...

by deanCommie 7y ago

cameronbrown 7y ago
I can imagine funding their direct competitor (which they're losing to) might not be a great idea.
- Kocrachon 7y ago
  I wonder if that mentality with change if/when AWS splits from AMZN.
  - cameronbrown 7y ago
    Amazon Retail would be an unsustainable mess without AWS.
    - sinsterizme 7y ago
      Why is that?
      - jacques_chester 7y ago
        AWS has much fatter margins than retail. There are substitutes for AWS, but the switching cost is relatively high. Whereas for toothpaste, breakfast cereal, toasters, books etc etc the substitution is perfect (I can buy the same brands from many companies) and switching cost is low (I pull out a credit card). Insofar as Amazon has a large free cashflow coming off AWS after capital improvements, it can use that money to (a) attract cheap funding from Wall St to (b) build, build, build.
    - leesec 7y ago
      Lol yes Amazon was definitely not a thriving company before AWS, good point.
  - Ericson2314 7y ago
    Dear God I hope the FTC cleaves vertically not horizontally.
Mountain_Skies 7y ago
May sound like a silly question but does Amazon ecommerce actually run on AWS?
- dnautics 7y ago
  I hear it might be azure when cloud but mostly on prem. (See one cloud)
CydeWeys 7y ago
AWS isn't the only cloud, and several AWS competitors have similar or better performance numbers. This isn't it.
- gibolt 7y ago
  Having used most of the competition, none can consistently compete. While they may have some better numbers, configuration complexity and user experience make achieving them in real-world use difficult
  - cglace 7y ago
    Having used every major public cloud I find google cloud to be the easiest to configure and manage.
  - jjeaff 7y ago
    Google clouds network is superior to AWS. I would be very surprised if a head to head comparison didn't have GCP in the lead as far as speed.
mrep 7y ago
Lol, amazon retail still hardly uses AWS. They use mostly their custom nosql database sable and a ton of Oracle SQL databases (albeit, a decent amount of those are getting migrated to rds postgresql)
- deleted 7y ago
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- justinv 7y ago
  This is not true. Amazon turned off oracle DB late last year and is trending Oracle free. https://twitter.com/ajassy/status/1060979175098437632 https://twitter.com/ajassy/status/1060979175098437632

Probably cuz Walmart refuses to use AWS...

cameronbrown 7y ago

I can imagine funding their direct competitor (which they're losing to) might not be a great idea.

Kocrachon 7y ago
I wonder if that mentality with change if/when AWS splits from AMZN.
- cameronbrown 7y ago
  Amazon Retail would be an unsustainable mess without AWS.
  - sinsterizme 7y ago
    Why is that?
    - jacques_chester 7y ago
      AWS has much fatter margins than retail. There are substitutes for AWS, but the switching cost is relatively high. Whereas for toothpaste, breakfast cereal, toasters, books etc etc the substitution is perfect (I can buy the same brands from many companies) and switching cost is low (I pull out a credit card). Insofar as Amazon has a large free cashflow coming off AWS after capital improvements, it can use that money to (a) attract cheap funding from Wall St to (b) build, build, build.
  - leesec 7y ago
    Lol yes Amazon was definitely not a thriving company before AWS, good point.
- Ericson2314 7y ago
  Dear God I hope the FTC cleaves vertically not horizontally.

Mountain_Skies 7y ago

May sound like a silly question but does Amazon ecommerce actually run on AWS?

dnautics 7y ago
I hear it might be azure when cloud but mostly on prem. (See one cloud)

CydeWeys 7y ago

AWS isn't the only cloud, and several AWS competitors have similar or better performance numbers. This isn't it.

gibolt 7y ago
Having used most of the competition, none can consistently compete. While they may have some better numbers, configuration complexity and user experience make achieving them in real-world use difficult
- cglace 7y ago
  Having used every major public cloud I find google cloud to be the easiest to configure and manage.
- jjeaff 7y ago
  Google clouds network is superior to AWS. I would be very surprised if a head to head comparison didn't have GCP in the lead as far as speed.

mrep 7y ago

Lol, amazon retail still hardly uses AWS. They use mostly their custom nosql database sable and a ton of Oracle SQL databases (albeit, a decent amount of those are getting migrated to rds postgresql)

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justinv 7y ago
This is not true. Amazon turned off oracle DB late last year and is trending Oracle free. https://twitter.com/ajassy/status/1060979175098437632 https://twitter.com/ajassy/status/1060979175098437632