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So, your position then is that Amazon is not using their size and market position to unfairly underprice the competition, and that there is still room to compet
by ghshephard 12y ago
So, your position then is that Amazon is not using their size and market position to unfairly underprice the competition, and that there is still room to compete against them.
I think that's a positive thing.
- beachstartup 12y ago> and that there is still room to compete against them the concept that there's no room to compete against the market mindshare incumbent is a marketer's wet dream. in other words, amazon does an amazingly effective job at marketing to people who think they aren't affected by marketing, and then get them to pay a massive premium to boot. they truly are geniuses in this regard.
- fweespeech 12y agoI don't think think that is what he is saying, or at least, I would have made a similar post if I had gotten here first. ;) You've basically got two groups of people: 1) Those who can capacity plan accurately and relatively stable capacity needs. For this group, Amazon is a complete and total rip off. There is a skill floor to this, admittedly, in the form of a sysadmin/devops fellow with years of experience. [Hint: A large fraction of the SaaS providers who use Amazon are likely in this group if they had someone who met the skill floor for this option. I'll admit it is a skill floor because they need to be able to deploy a 1 or 3 Datacenter HA configuration without someone holding their hand.] 2) Those who have highly variable loads [Netflix] and/or lack the necessary experienced DevOps/Sysadmin type who can do capacity planning.