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Nope. I didn’t say anything like that at all. You just don’t best AWS by trying to replicate them, since they have enough capital to create four of you several
by loldigitalocean 7y ago
Nope. I didn’t say anything like that at all. You just don’t best AWS by trying to replicate them, since they have enough capital to create four of you several times a year (and do, i.e., Lightsail).
- baybal2 7y agoSaying that, they themselves really need to look at Baidu, or Alibaba. In the approach of "throwing money on the problem until it works" few can beat them. Alibaba's losses were surreal when they tried to get even to the tenth of AWS scale, but they went way further, and now they are profitable.
- walrus01 7y agoAlibaba and Baidu have a totally other market segment, which is domestic Chinese companies that want and need to be fully compatible with Chinese law for domestic data hosting, retention, government compliance. There is a venn diagram overlap between the markets addressed by the (AWS, Azure, DO, etc) and the Chinese virtual machine providers, but it's nowhere near 100%.
- baybal2 7y agoNo, they have tons of business outside of China, just take 5 minutes to google that. People can of course challenge their bookkeeping, but still...
- marcinzm 7y ago>No, they have tons of business outside of China If not for China they wouldn't be where they are and wouldn't have succeeded. Having a large core market you are the most competitive in (due to government regulations) provides a massive upside that you can then leverage in other markets.