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Amazon had the luxury of borrowing engineering and $ from other side of their business to build that 'small and unpretentious' cloud. No other companies have t
by dba7dba 12y ago
Amazon had the luxury of borrowing engineering and $ from other side of their business to build that 'small and unpretentious' cloud.
No other companies have the $ or engineering to pull it off. Nor the time to wait for it to grow.
This reminds me of South Korea's chaebol and Japan's keiretsu business groups.
- billyhoffman 12y agoA good point, and probably helped Amazon's success. But this is no different than Sun. Have you seen the margin on SPARQ processors and machines? Sun had plenty of cash to bootstrap their grid computing effort. The problem for Sun was a Strategy Tax. Sun was in the business of selling big iron systems. Their grid effort was an inverse of this model: 1- Sun had to pay for/run the systems (or sub contract it) 2- Why buy a big system from Sun when you can just use what you need? 3- Sun's sales organization was not designed to sell utility computing to medium sized businesses.