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Turns out you just have to go thru the intermediate step of pioneering cloud services and becoming the leader of the space.

• MattGaiser 6y ago
  Amazon realized early on that technical excellence supports business excellence. Most businesses and governments have not yet come to that conclusion. Cloud services should have come from HP, Oracle, Google, Yahoo, or any number of actual tech companies. It is an absurdity really that Amazon won the space.
  • Spooky23 6y ago
    All of those companies except Google listened to their dopey customers. I remember playing with S3 and pitching early EC2 after reading a story about how the New York Times digitized their archives, a project my then employer was doing for our records at ridiculous expense. My director loved it, but legal shot it down for 100 reasons that turned out to be nonsense.
  • BbzzbB 6y ago
    It really is weird. Granted I am very much a layman and have no true understanding behind cloud infrastructures, I've always find it really weird that Amazon of all companies won that race over more intertwined players.