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Does this in some way end up in an anti-trust vertical integration situation? Dockerhub runs on AWS infrastructure to begin with. Is this similar enough to the

Does this in some way end up in an anti-trust vertical integration situation? Dockerhub runs on AWS infrastructure to begin with. Is this similar enough to the railroad company undercutting the freight company that uses their railroad tracks?

threeseed 6y ago
a) Nobody cares about container registries. b) There are dozens of alternatives so AWS isn't going to be a monopoly nor impede competition.
- bdcravens 6y ago
  They care, they just don't know it yet. Almost every container pulls from Docker Hub (the base images)
- MisterPea 6y ago
  Your point a) gave me a good laugh. It's going to be a while until courts/lawyers/public care about nuanced topics in software.
bdcravens 6y ago
Except other competing services also run on AWS, and have for years (some depend solely on AWS, like Heroku; others are multi-cloud, like MongoDB Atlas)
_alex_ 6y ago
There are TONS of companies running on AWS that face competition from AWS. Snowflake just IPO’d. They run on AWS and sell a data warehouse service. AWS also has its own data warehouse called redshift