anyone paying attention realizes AWS has been permanently 2-3 years ahead of everyone else, and that's being generous, in terms of capabilities. the reason is t

anyone paying attention realizes AWS has been permanently 2-3 years ahead of everyone else, and that's being generous, in terms of capabilities. the reason is they are one of the few companies in a position to both offer extensive cloud services and eat their own dogfood on a massive scale. this, combined with AMZN's obsessions with undercutting competitors on price, locks them into the head of the pack. in the long run, it will just be GOOG, MSFT, AMZN, and maybe CRM or other large scale sass providers who can pull it off at the right price. RAX et al are fucked imho b/c of the dogfood gap.