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>I work at AWS in Professional Services where we are pushed to go after the other 95%. It wasn't stated in the article that 95% of hosting is self hosted. I wo

>I work at AWS in Professional Services where we are pushed to go after the other 95%. It wasn't stated in the article that 95% of hosting is self hosted. I would appreciate some article or something that actually makes that claim. >I watch the ReInvent videos. He is very much talking about growing by going after the other 95%. I haven't watch those videos, but if it just reiterates the article then it won't prove your point. 5% of costs has nothing to do with market share. Continuing to say 5% is useless when it almost certainly doesn't mean what you are claiming. >I know first hand how many large enterprises and state and local government institutions are self hosted Has nothing to do with the percentage of hosting. >As far as “needing an app”. Do you really think the same people who will show up by the thousands to watch Trump and go through the trouble of invading the Capital won’t go out of their way to go to a website and post their opinions? A growing number of people don't even have a computer. They only have a phone. It is difficult to deal with many sites on phones. Not sure how good Parler is, but they are frequently a subpar experience like notifications not even working most of the time. I'd you want engagement you need an app. Its as simple as that. That is why every social media has its own app instead of directing people to their websites.

scarface74 4y ago
Twitter and Facebook both have websites that are both easy to deal with on the phone. Global IT spend is 4.5T. https://www.serverfarmllc.com/blog/mind-blowing-worldwide-it-spend-and-cloud-growth-figures-are-a-key-driver-for-commercial-data-centers/ https://www.serverfarmllc.com/blog/mind-blowing-worldwide-it... AWS percentage of that spend is infinitesimal.
- _-david-_ 4y ago
  > Twitter and Facebook both have websites that are both easy to deal with on the phone. I am not saying that you need to have an app to succeed, only that succeeding without one will be difficult and lead to a higher likelihood of failing. If apps are a waste and don't provide any use to people then why do these companies waste their time and money making an app? Why do users often times use the apps? >Global IT spend is 4.5T. > AWS percentage of that spend is infinitesimal. Literally has nothing to do with anything. I don't think you understand what I am saying despite repeating myself multiple times. The percentage of spending going to X doesn't let you figure out the market share of X. Even if it could, which it can't, it has nothing to do with the topic at hand. I am not even talking about data centers. You brought it up and couldn't even provide the accurate figure for market share. Spending on IT has nothing to do with market share.
  - scarface74 4y ago
    If global IT spend is 4.5T, and AWS revenues is around 50B (don’t quote me I’m too lazy to look it up) and AWS has the largest market share of cloud. That implies that most companies aren’t using cloud and there is no monopoly. Anyone can put a website up, find a colo center to serve traffic somewhere and reach anyone. No one is just randomly blocking websites in the US and Android and now iOS support web push notifications on mobile
    - _-david-_ 4y ago
      Please just stop. There is more to IT spending than hosting costs. Salaries are often times a huge cost. You clearly don't understand that and are wasting my time. The market share for cloud is many times more than 5% or whatever you were claiming.

scarface74 4y ago

Twitter and Facebook both have websites that are both easy to deal with on the phone. Global IT spend is 4.5T. https://www.serverfarmllc.com/blog/mind-blowing-worldwide-it-spend-and-cloud-growth-figures-are-a-key-driver-for-commercial-data-centers/ https://www.serverfarmllc.com/blog/mind-blowing-worldwide-it... AWS percentage of that spend is infinitesimal.

_-david-_ 4y ago
> Twitter and Facebook both have websites that are both easy to deal with on the phone. I am not saying that you need to have an app to succeed, only that succeeding without one will be difficult and lead to a higher likelihood of failing. If apps are a waste and don't provide any use to people then why do these companies waste their time and money making an app? Why do users often times use the apps? >Global IT spend is 4.5T. > AWS percentage of that spend is infinitesimal. Literally has nothing to do with anything. I don't think you understand what I am saying despite repeating myself multiple times. The percentage of spending going to X doesn't let you figure out the market share of X. Even if it could, which it can't, it has nothing to do with the topic at hand. I am not even talking about data centers. You brought it up and couldn't even provide the accurate figure for market share. Spending on IT has nothing to do with market share.
- scarface74 4y ago
  If global IT spend is 4.5T, and AWS revenues is around 50B (don’t quote me I’m too lazy to look it up) and AWS has the largest market share of cloud. That implies that most companies aren’t using cloud and there is no monopoly. Anyone can put a website up, find a colo center to serve traffic somewhere and reach anyone. No one is just randomly blocking websites in the US and Android and now iOS support web push notifications on mobile
  - _-david-_ 4y ago
    Please just stop. There is more to IT spending than hosting costs. Salaries are often times a huge cost. You clearly don't understand that and are wasting my time. The market share for cloud is many times more than 5% or whatever you were claiming.