Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microsoft in Cloud

Re:Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microso... by izend on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @02:58PM (#21818039)

Exactly, which is the exact opposite of what AWS is doing. They have how many services that very few people use now? But at least they respect their customers and view the cost of running those services as goodwill for their customers.

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Re:Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microso... by labradore on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @05:37PM (#21819714)

They like to use small teams. I wouldn't be surprised if their least-used AWS product is still profitable (aside from brand-new stuff or obvious non-profits like Deep Racer). The idea is to get people into AWS and help keep them there. You don't do that by making life harder or unpredictable for your customers.

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Re:Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microso... by echelon on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @04:44PM (#21819229)

It's the opposite of what AWS is doing, but not what Amazon as a whole is doing. There was a recent article that said they're considering cost-cutting in the Alexa business unit [1].

[1] https://www.theinformation.com/articles/amazon-learns-a-new-...

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Re:Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microso... by labradore on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @05:33PM (#21819660)

Does it seriously take 10k people to make Alexa? And she's way dumber than Google. Yes, they should be cutting some costs.

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Re:Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microso... by logicchains on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @06:06PM (#21819951)

Maybe it's one of those many-if-statements style AIs.

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Re:Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microso... by rumanator on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @06:26PM (#21820144)

We prefer to call them decision trees. It sounds far fancier.

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