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The article misses the Amazon competitive problem. Quite a few retail companies will not do business with companies that host on AWS infrastructure (e.g. Walmar
by koblas 6y ago
The article misses the Amazon competitive problem. Quite a few retail companies will not do business with companies that host on AWS infrastructure (e.g. Walmart).
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-40367626 https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-40367626
- exhilaration 6y agoEDIT: I misread the parent; it refers to retailers not using tools like Zoom because they run on AWS. Original comment: You mean like this part of the article? If you deliver a product on top of a third party cloud platform, that cloud can see all the telemetry data. Such access becomes problematic when that same cloud platform offers a competing product, which is why no big retailer would ever run their e-commerce operation on AWS.
- throw_away 6y agoThe parent is referring to a second order issue. Your quote talks about how competing companies don't want to use AWS for their own products because it would reveal traffic numbers and telemetry and Amazon could potentially later release a competing product. Parent is talking about how zoom's customers won't want to use zoom because they don't trust their corporate communications to be trunked over amazon.
- exhilaration 6y agoI reread the comment and you are absolutely correct. I've added an edit.
- hyperpape 6y agoI work at an enterprise SaaS product in the logistics space, and this is 100% a concern. A recent project had endless discussions about whether we could put it in AWS, or if whether customers would refuse to use it if that happened. That said, it was still an AWS/Azure/GCP discussion.