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That's an odd way to look at things. Google, Microsoft, and Amazon are in turn reliant on Intel for the CPUs that power their cloud services. Does that put Inte
by jonas21 6y ago
That's an odd way to look at things. Google, Microsoft, and Amazon are in turn reliant on Intel for the CPUs that power their cloud services. Does that put Intel in a class above them? No -- it's just companies buying stuff from other companies so they can focus on what they're good at.
* and going one step further, all of these rely on a handful of janitorial companies to operate. so maybe the ABMs of the world are in the top class?
- tapoxi 6y agoAmazon has AWS instances running their own custom ARM silicon. It's not hard to imagine Microsoft and Google doing the same, which will eventually become dominant for cost reasons alone. We'll have three platforms that control most non-Chinese computing. It's hard for smaller players to compete with that kind of inertia.
- dodobirdlord 6y agoLast year’s Gartner report concluded that less than 10% of cloud computing workloads were running in public clouds. With respect to technology, most of the companies of the world are consistently living 20+ years in the past. It’s certainly hard to compete at running a public cloud, but it’s hard to compete in any industry that requires $X00B capex to get the ball rolling.
- harpratap 6y agoCloud Computing is the kind of technology that is becomes profitable only at large scale - like telecom and silicon chips. Small players can't really do anything about it.
- scarface74 6y agoTo add on, Amazon always brags that it has twice as many Windows instances running as Azure....