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> Plus, I'd guess that AWS is probably making sweet margins off those Graviton instances. Let's say that their margin on Intel instances is X and that margin on
by tw04 5y ago
> Plus, I'd guess that AWS is probably making sweet margins off those Graviton instances. Let's say that their margin on Intel instances is X and that margin on Graviton is 2X.
I’d guess like everything they do, they’re taking a bath on margin in the short term to solidify a monopoly in the long term. Amazon made basically $0 for over a decade. Investors were fine with that because everyone knew they were building a monopoly to later be exploited.
- davedx 5y agoAWS is not a monopoly in any sense
- stjohnswarts 5y agoSure but they are part of a market that is pretty quickly reaching oligopoly status
- GhettoComputers 5y agoI don't know personally how it works, but some stuff only works on AWS, so it can have monopoly status in some server instances, but not all. They were a monopoly for years, but no longer are at least for general cloud computing.