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A potential competitor, yes, but who expected Amazon to offer a video transcoding service? I certainly did not. Do you think that offering any compute-based se
by bjustin 14y ago
A potential competitor, yes, but who expected Amazon to offer a video transcoding service? I certainly did not. Do you think that offering any compute-based service using Amazon's infrastructure is a bad business decision?
- untog 14y agoIf you'd asked me a few years ago, I wouldn't have expected Amazon to provide a CDN. Or a DNS server. Or a giant MySQL instance in the sky. I think the general lesson here is that if it is a server-based operation that can be made more cost effective in bulk, Amazon are interested in doing it.
- jpdoctor 14y ago> that can be made more cost effective in bulk I assume the Heroku guys have noticed by now. Hopefully they're working on designing Amazon out.
- untog 14y agoIt is interesting that Amazon never seem to go down the acquisition route- if they did, Heroku could be a target. I really want someone to make an RDS-like service for Postgres. But I don't blame people for not trying right now, I'm sure Amazon will do it eventually.
- shalmanese 14y agoAmazon bought Zappos and Kiva
- 18pfsmt 14y agoAre you saying Amazon would buy Salesforce, or that Amazon would buy Heroku from Salesforce?
- untog 14y agoI actually forgot that Heroku had been bought out by Salesforce- but the point remains that before they sold, Amazon could have been tried competing in any buy out. I can't quite believe Amazon has never acquired anyone, though- are there any high profile ones out there?
- igravious 14y agoeh? From the bottom of the Amazon.com homepage ... --- AbeBooks AfterSchool.com Audible BeautyBar.com Book Depository Bookworm.com Casa.com CreateSpace Diapers.com DPReview Fabric IMDb Junglee.com MYHABIT Shopbop Soap.com Vine.com Wag.com Woot Yoyo.com Zappos
- tedunangst 14y agoPlus defunct operations like cdnow.
- alttab 14y agoMost of those look like online retailers and not iaas or compute services companies. No one builds services like amazon. They aren't interested in bolting on someone else's idea company.
- papsosouid 14y agoSomeone already did, like a year ago: http://www.enterprisedb.com/ http://www.enterprisedb.com/
- bryanthompson 14y agoI never would have guessed it before they released their Simple Workflow Service. Once I saw that, though, game on.
- jpdoctor 14y ago> but who expected Amazon to offer a video transcoding service? Anyone who has used their instant streaming service. They have a boatload of video to transcode to zillions of devices. The fact that they would take that in-house was not a particularly big leap.
- kordless 14y agoI'd expect anything that allows them to sell more instances without having to increase cost of sales. They have unique edge in being able to see what types of services would do well under this model, including live competitive analysis on the instances they currently run.