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While it might be possible for a deep-pocketed organization to spin up a cloud provider overnight, it doesn't mean that people will use it. In general, the swit
by chatmasta 2y ago
While it might be possible for a deep-pocketed organization to spin up a cloud provider overnight, it doesn't mean that people will use it. In general, the switching cost of migrating compute infrastructure from one service to another is much higher than the switching cost of changing the LLM used for inference.
Amazon doesn't need to worry about suddenly losing its entire customer base to Alibaba, Yandex, or Oracle.
- smolder 2y agoAmazon has spent a ton on developing features that lock in users beyond what is fundamentally 'cloud', i.e. the ability to lease computers as a commodity. I have always warned employers about the downside of adopting all that extraneous stuff, with little effect.
- insane_dreamer 2y agoand all of that is part of the "moat" that the article author is talking about which is almost impossible to replicate in a short amount of time
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