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Additionally, from some quick googling, it looks like Stripe and Square both run on AWS? Shopify used to but now runs on GCS? Is OP mainly just talking about
by jrochkind1 5y ago
Additionally, from some quick googling, it looks like Stripe and Square both run on AWS? Shopify used to but now runs on GCS?
Is OP mainly just talking about Amazon's dominance of online consumer shopping specifically, rather than a general thing about "big tech"?
- kazen44 5y agoto be fair, there is very little reason why shopify or stripe couldn't run on a couple of racks of servers in a couple of datacenters across the globe.
- Buttsite 5y agoSo why don't they do that anymore? Just the love of migrating thousands of app instances and signing contracts with cloud hosts?
- jrochkind1 5y agoAnd yet...