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Amazon 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 domina
by tapoxi 6y ago
Amazon 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.