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Amazon's next billion-dollar business eyed

• zeit_geist 15y ago
  How I could I miss AWS for so long?! ;p
  • nolite 15y ago
    Well, its because it was a "secretive unit"
    • diolpah 15y ago
      I literally laughed out loud at this particular example of journalistic cluelessness. Haven't done that since, well, the Louise Boat.
      • fuzzmeister 15y ago
        Perhaps "secretive unit" was in reference to "Amazon doesn't disclose AWS results"? Still seems rather odd, though.
• jamesbkel 15y ago
  As much as I want to laugh (and maybe even cry) at this, it does bring up a good point. Not so much in the content, but the fact that it exists in the first place. I imagine that for almost everyone on HN the "revelation" of this article is comically obvious. However, I have had countless clients who were interested in testing the waters for hosting or HPC work and were committed to sinking a lot of cash into in-house machines up front. I almost always suggest experimenting with AWS and then moving on from there. More than 1/2 of the time I get a bug-eyed look, not because they are skeptical of AWS, they just have no idea what it is.
• rdl 15y ago
  It seems pretty likely that AWS on its own would be worth >$1b right now. Probably $5-10b in the current market, just based on adoption. It's pretty weak for enterprise/internal/corp use, vs. web startup, but I could see them expanding over time.