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They kind of do, which is why alot of big tech should be highly regulated like utilities.

• Spivak 6y ago
  I feel like saying that AWS should be regulated like a utility because lots of businesses use their products is a little sill. They have heavy competition in basically all of their markets, their moat is their breadth of services and they’re constantly at risk of being unbundled by a competitor that has more time to devote to a single product segment. They have persistent natural competition with colo-ing that keeps their prices from straying too far from commodity hardware and an ops person. Like if you’re looking to regulate a market this seems like one of the last you’d peg as not being healthy.
  • huffmsa 6y ago
    There are tons of niche hosts that have sprung up recently, a lot for developing and serving AI/ML applications. Amazon was there first, but it's getting cheaper by the day to buy a bunch of hardware, stick it in an increasingly cheaply electrified building, run a bunch of fiber to it and slap some virtualization software on it.
  • alangibson 6y ago
    AWS wouldn't be my first choice to regulate, but at this point they can turn any competing business into a feature of AWS without breaking a sweat. I know for sure this stifles innovation because I've watched people abandon promising ideas because of that fact.