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There are many, many companies competing with AWS on products that strictly speaking AWS also has. I mean Zoom has no right to exist because you can use Chime?
by tnolet 6y ago
There are many, many companies competing with AWS on products that strictly speaking AWS also has.
I mean Zoom has no right to exist because you can use Chime?
There is always room for better UX, better support, different approach etc.
- whimsicalism 6y agoI find the idea that AWS will just eat the competition always a little silly as well. I've used AWS managed offerings that were far inferior to the alternatives.
- qbasic_forever 6y agoAnd yet we've never seen anyone beat Amazon yet. Look at how much the PaaS area has churned over the last 10 years. Giants that stuck around like Docker are completely deflated and near worthless compared to their initial values and expectations. The smart ones like Heroku got out when the getting was good.
- musingsole 6y ago> And yet we've never seen anyone beat Amazon yet. That largely depends on your definitions of "beat" and "win". There are plenty of software infrastructure firms out there that Amazon has yet to smash into the ground. Nature seems to think (and I agree) simply existing is winning.
- kyawzazaw 6y agoPlease give examples. I would like to learn more about it (even if subjective)
- musingsole 6y agoDigitalOcean is a competitor of comparable size (even if its like a pebble to a boulder): https://finance.yahoo.com/news/blavatnik-backed-digitalocean-sinks-775-170108292.html https://finance.yahoo.com/news/blavatnik-backed-digitalocean...
- mewpmewp2 6y agoI use Digital Ocean and definitely vouch for them. They are way cheaper compared to AWS too. Nice, slick UI too.
- azinman2 6y agoSo why were you using the AWS managed offering then instead of the alternative?
- natevancouver 6y agoUsually because the company already pays an AWS bill. No one will care if you add another Lambda function, but to use an alternative you’ll have to get past some gatekeepers.
- azinman2 6y agoSo there you go. Lots of friction for competitors.