You're right; Amazon wouldn't damage their rep as a cloud provider by playing dirty tricks, even without the threat of legal action. To your first point, Amazo

You're right; Amazon wouldn't damage their rep as a cloud provider by playing dirty tricks, even without the threat of legal action. To your first point, Amazon knows as much about running massive scale systems as anybody. I think Netflix would have a hard time capturing those economies of scale. The fact that Amazon's VOD works on Linux, is the most personally compelling feature. I don't know how many other people are interested, but that's enough for me to look closely at it.