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Re:Amazon DocumentDB, with MongoDB compatibility by api on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @11:12PM (#18871469)
Years ago I realized that a hidden driver for the growth of cloud is this. The cloud is DRM, and almost uncrackable DRM at that since you have neither the code nor the hardware.
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Re:Amazon DocumentDB, with MongoDB compatibility by ZainRiz on Thursday January 10, 2019 @05:55PM (#18879238)
Basically. The one who controls the servers is King.

The code needed to run those servers is the secret sauce and a huge competitive advantage, but with open source software you're giving away the secret sauce and the business victory goes to the one with the most business friendly servers

(There are many dimensions to "business friendly", a big one of which is "it's easy for us to start using this additional service since we're already paying this company for other services")

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Re:Amazon DocumentDB, with MongoDB compatibility by aortenzi on Thursday January 10, 2019 @10:05AM (#18874288)
Software and the control plane is the razor, compute resources are the blades. Amazon's software is its loss leader.
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Re:Amazon DocumentDB, with MongoDB compatibility by halbritt on Thursday January 10, 2019 @11:58AM (#18875441)
Not really. There's roughly a 50% premium vs raw EC2 instances for any RDS related service. The crux is keeping the operating cost below that delta.
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Re:Amazon DocumentDB, with MongoDB compatibility by kemitchell on Thursday January 10, 2019 @01:01AM (#18871859)
If you haven’t already, do a search on FSF.org for “service as a software substitute”.
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