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Did you not read the news that Amazon uses data to compete against its own customers?

• jaywalk 6y ago
  That was specifically about the Amazon marketplace, not AWS.
  • cmauniada 6y ago
    AWS isn't that far off from following in the same path. Look at what they did with Elastic Search.
    • klohto 6y ago
      I'm out of the loop, what did they do with ES (except for providing unstable service...)?
      • cmauniada 6y ago
        They have a habit of copying open source software and re-branding it as their own. Here is an article. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/15/technology/amazon-aws-cloud-competition.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/15/technology/amazon-aws-clo...
        • snazz 6y ago
          That’s not the same thing as using their customers’ data to compete against their customers.
          • cmauniada 6y ago
            Fair enough, I know the original article was about what you just mentioned. Still doesn't give them a pass to how they carry out their business though.
    • outworlder 6y ago
      That has nothing to do with the subject being discussed. Unless you are saying their offering harvests customer data?
      • dehrmann 6y ago
        I have no inside knowledge about this, but I'd assume and expect AWS to only use customer metadata like resource utilization for capacity management and planning. Much more and they run into compliance issues with things like HIPPA, SOC 2, and PCI.