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Re:Amazon expands its air cargo fleet by justaguyhere on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @04:41PM (#20218164)
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...

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Re:Amazon expands its air cargo fleet by EpicEng on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @05:04PM (#20218398)
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.

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