Re:AWS Drives More Than Half of Amazon's Operating Income
by busterarm on Saturday February 02, 2019 @02:34AM
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Microsoft did it pretty easily because they have the financial flexibility to make a multi-billion dollar investment and already have a global enterprise sales and support organization with a 20 year head start on the competition.
Facebook can't say the same and getting 100 datacenters up and running would cost them 25 billion before hiring anyone -- that's more than half of their cash.
I agree with you though that it makes zero sense for Facebook to do this.
Facebook can't say the same and getting 100 datacenters up and running would cost them 25 billion before hiring anyone -- that's more than half of their cash.
I agree with you though that it makes zero sense for Facebook to do this.