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Re:Wal-Mart is telling some vendors they can’t run applicati... by elif on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @11:49AM (#14604809)
where is that pressure represented in this chart? AWS total revenue is less than a year's growth. Wal-Mart showing signs of desperation does not imply amazon's defeat.

http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/56abe654c08a80431d8...

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Re:Wal-Mart is telling some vendors they can’t run applicati... by KirinDave on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @12:20PM (#14605139)
I agree. Conceptually Amazon has competitors in every field. They just don't seem to be denting Amazon's growing control.
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Re:Wal-Mart is telling some vendors they can’t run applicati... by dkrich on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @12:39PM (#14605365)
Well, that chart only goes to 2015. But in any case, ecommerce and web services are growing businesses, so naturally the growth has been huge looking back. But looking forward, Azure is presenting itself as a greater challenge to AWS each day and all retailers are getting smarter about ecommerce, taking cues from Amazon. Amazon has a huge lead in ecommerce and web services, but it's going to diminish. Prime video is a sinkhole of money. I get that they're using that to attract people to Prime, but it's a massive investment and if profits in other businesses start shrinking, they will be screwed.
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