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They will probably not attempt to compete against AWS on everything but focus on the core cloud technologies using off the shelf software and hardware. An alter
by speedgoose 7y ago
They will probably not attempt to compete against AWS on everything but focus on the core cloud technologies using off the shelf software and hardware. An alternative of EC2, S3, and ELB is already interesting and many companies provide that with fewer employees.
No need to waste resources on products such as AWS Greengrass, or AWS Lumberyard, or even AWS EKS.
- discodave 7y agoJust EC2 networking (VPC) is several hundred, maybe 1000 employees. My guess at the total headcount for EC2 would be several thousand employees. Source: worked as an engineer at Amazon, including EC2 for 5 years.
- speedgoose 7y agoSome cloud providers have a lot fewer employees and are doing well. They don't have as many features compared to EC2 and VPC but it's not a major problem for them.
- discodave 7y agoIf you're talking about GCP, and MS, then they have thousands of engineers too. If you're talking about Digital Ocean, Mongo, and other medium sized players, then I only give them a couple more years before things get really ugly.
- speedgoose 7y agoYes I'm thinking about smaller players. I would bet GCP will be cancelled before most of the small players give up.
- oblio 7y agoGCP is moving the corporate needle. Not a lot, but it is. It won't be cancelled.
- oblio 7y agoYeah, but are they doing "$35 billion per year"-well? :-)
- eb0la 7y agoI am betting they will provide only: - Block + Object storage (can be done with off-the-shelf hardware). - Compute instances - VPC networking. - Kubernetes (o k8s-managed services). - An open-source database. Probably postgress.
- speedgoose 7y agoPerhaps a message queue as well.