Target is plotting a big move away from AWS as Amazon takes over retail

Re:Target is plotting a big move away from AWS as Amazon tak... by meow_mix on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @02:44AM (#15130133)

Amazon is a company that cares about credibility above all else, plus word travels fast in software engineering circles. Seems unlikely they would risk snooping

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Re:Target is plotting a big move away from AWS as Amazon tak... by dragonwriter on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @09:18AM (#15131871)

Before AWS or their open marketplace model, Amazon provided e-commerce services for established brick-and-mortar retailers (basically, Amazon-run online shops under the established retailers’ names.)

They quite aggressively mined this for data that was used competitively for Amazon's own online retail operations. I'm not surprised that this combined with Amazon making a big move into brick and mortar retail would worry existing retailer, especially Target, who along with Borders was, IIRC, one of the noteworthy retailers that had been dependent on Amazon's earlier service.

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Re:Target is plotting a big move away from AWS as Amazon tak... by SallySwanSmith on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @12:30PM (#15133509)

Citation required

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Re:Target is plotting a big move away from AWS as Amazon tak... by hueving on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @03:01AM (#15130194)

Realistically it would take a very small team to do this orthogonal to the rest of the aws team.

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