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I agree it’s a moat, but why would azure restrain competition from google? I think it’s just yet another example of an anti-abuse collateral damage, like email
by creato 3y ago
I agree it’s a moat, but why would azure restrain competition from google? I think it’s just yet another example of an anti-abuse collateral damage, like email anti-spam blocking small unknown servers or Cloudflare blocking unknown IPs.
- whatshisface 3y agoMoats are anticompetitive, that's the entire idea behind why founders want them. Who else would a moat keep away, customers? ;)
- kazinator 3y agoCustomers are kept in by moats.
- whatshisface 3y agoThat's lock-in, moats are things that keep your competitors out. Source: https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/05/economicmoat.asp https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/05/economicmoat.asp
- sokoloff 3y agoBecause Azure customers want Google to be able to index their sites. Would you host your e-commerce or social media site on a cloud provider that blocked Googlebot? It's not Microsoft giving Google a handout out of the goodness of their hearts; it's Azure customers demanding that functionality. (Those Azure customers also don't care about a random little search startup and probably don't want to pay any egress fees to serve traffic to it.) AWS offers the same: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/waf/latest/developerguide/waf-bot-control-example-allow-verified-bots.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/waf/latest/developerguide/waf-bo... Oracle as well: https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/WAF/Bot/good_bot_allowlist.htm https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/WAF/Bot/good_bot_... Akamai as well: https://www.akamai.com/products/bot-manager https://www.akamai.com/products/bot-manager