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I think the buried and more convincing point in there is that Bezos and Amazon's continued expansion into new markets mean there's more and more industries that
by noirbot 7y ago
I think the buried and more convincing point in there is that Bezos and Amazon's continued expansion into new markets mean there's more and more industries that feel threatened by Amazon, and thus more worried about funneling them money through AWS.
If you're building out a new company right now and get to pick your cloud provider, how confident are you that in 5 years, Amazon won't be selling a competing product to yours? And if you're starting from nothing, why not just use GCP or Azure and avoid that risk?
- mwcampbell 7y agoGoogle and Microsoft also expand into new markets. To me, this is a good argument to use one of the smaller but growing players, like DigitalOcean.
- mc32 7y agoGoogle and esp MS are more limited in the imitation copy strategy risks. If you’ve got something compelling that they want, most likely they’ll buy you out. Amazon occasionally buys companies out too, but are also more likely to encroach on your turf. MS and Google tend to build (cooperative) “ecosystems”, Amazon less so.
- wbl 7y agoYou aren't avoiding the risk of Amazon deciding they want to compete.