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Amazon has done it more than twice. They do it consistently and across their three core businesses.
by delano 18y ago
Amazon has done it more than twice. They do it consistently and across their three core businesses.
- rjurney 18y agoI just mean in a general sense: e-commerce and now the cloud.
- wheels 18y agoBut they're both sides of the same coin for Amazon. They had to build up this infrastructure for their own use, and that's why they can do cloud hosting so efficiently. It's like when they had a9, which was a pretty cool search engine (I used it for a while); they've naturally got a really hard-core search engine in house that works on rich data just for their own mountain of data. It's the same for most of the other stuff that they've done. I really think Amazon parallels Google in innovation, but they've somehow stayed much less sexy in the hacker world. I suppose it's that Amazon hasn't needed to make "we're smart people" one of their selling points.
- rjurney 18y agoI see what you mean about the infrastructure, and its a good point. But as to love for Amazon... I dunno, most hackers I know have disdain for Google at this point, and much love for Amazon. But then... I am cloud obsessed, and this influences who I associate with :) Amazon enables us. Google... not so much.