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Serious question: Why doesn't AMZ just buy TimeScaleDB instead of building their own? Time series db's in general seem to fit their vibe pretty well: it's a ne
by misterbwong 6y ago
Serious question: Why doesn't AMZ just buy TimeScaleDB instead of building their own? Time series db's in general seem to fit their vibe pretty well: it's a new hot tech, it's usually deeply embedded into infrastructure, and requires loads of bandwidth & storage.
- kdtsh 6y agoTimescale isn't exactly huge yet, but their potential is enormous - but so is the potential in building a competing product offered as a service. Unless Amazon want to put at least 8 zeros in their offer, I can't see it happening, and at that point Amazon might as well hedge their bets and build their own offering (which is exactly what they're doing). At worst, their offering will be only _okay_, and at the same time Timescale is doing business with Amazon by hosting DaaS instances on their infrastructure, which I'm sure Amazon takes a handsome cut from.