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I don't follow you. Your suggestion just serves to turn this into a commodity low-margin business. What benefit does google have for doing that?
by josho 7y ago
I don't follow you. Your suggestion just serves to turn this into a commodity low-margin business. What benefit does google have for doing that?
- benologist 7y agoYour question is basically how does hosting a quarter of the internet make money, well Amazon benefits a mil+ an hour in profit off AWS margins... plenty to entice Google and Microsoft to compete.
- sib 7y agoGoogle sees Amazon as its biggest and most threatening competitor. Starving your competitor of lots of high-margin revenue is a good thing to do.
- VikingCoder 7y agoIf there's margin to be had, the first step is having customers. AWS was the clear leader, and sure, you can try to attract different customers... but they should have also tried to make it as easy as possible for existing AWS customers to migrate. Then, you offer your customers additional services that the other guy doesn't offer.