Re:Amazon expands its air cargo fleet
by lapnitnelav on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @08:50PM
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Just dropping this in, Amazon is about to purchase Sizmek which is a major player in online advertising - the main competitor to G's Doubleclick advertiser solutions.
So they'll get even more data on the marketing side.
I think you're just changing "the point" as I replied to this direct quote:
>Through your business with AWS you are now funding a large, fierce, and direct competitor.
No one here is talking about FBA's or the Amazon marketplace; they're talking about using AWS and having Amazon infiltrate your product space down the road.
Re:Amazon expands its air cargo fleet
by justaguyhere on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @04:41PM
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FBA or AWS, I think the same argument holds - AWS and Amazon in general are so big, that they wouldn't care if a few hundred (or even a few thousand) smaller clients leave them. The data they lose matters more than the money.
That said, you are funding a fierce competitor, even if your AWS bill is just 10 bucks a month...
It's not the same though. If you jump in and start selling merch in Amazon then you are entering _their_ space directly and using their platform to do so. As you said, you're not only handing them money; you're handing them all of your data.
Using AWS to build your back end before finding out that Amazon is now going to enter your market is hardly the same thing. Your handful of VMs make exactly zero difference. AWS or no, Amazon was going to eat your lunch.
It is like these FBA sellers are paying Amazon, then giving valuable data to them and helping Amazon put them out of business. It is just a shitty situation