DigitalOcean is laying off staff

Re:DigitalOcean is laying off staff by enos_feedler on Friday January 17, 2020 @01:19PM (#22077476)

I dont think an existing cloud provider makes sense since they’ve all ramped their efforts pretty hard to compete with each other. I would suspect AAPL would be the buyer. It is a big risk for all iOS apps to be backed by infrastructure belonging to other companies they compete with in consumer devices. I think AAPL would want to make another option available.

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Re:DigitalOcean is laying off staff by jandrese on Friday January 17, 2020 @01:45PM (#22077759)

I guess iCloud is hosted on AWS? I never actually looked. It doesn't seem to be that big of an issue for Apple though. And if it did happen I guess that wouldn't be so bad, I mean it could be worse. Oracle could decide to get into the cloud business by buying out DO.

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Re:DigitalOcean is laying off staff by sdan on Friday January 17, 2020 @03:00PM (#22078590)

I'm pretty sure iCloud is hosted on Apple's servers now.

A couple months ago on HN, a graph of cloud spending for the big Ns came out and Apple has slowly moved everything onto their own server in 2017/2018

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Re:DigitalOcean is laying off staff by kickopotomus on Friday January 17, 2020 @02:21PM (#22078155)

If I remember correctly, iCloud is actually hosted by Google.

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Re:DigitalOcean is laying off staff by ogre_codes on Friday January 17, 2020 @04:11PM (#22079385)

This was never the case. They are self hosted and for a while they hosted a fair bit of data on Azure & AWS. Not sure if they still use Azure and AWS, but iCloud has never been on Google's infra. (Other Apple content has been served by Google at various times, maps being the big/ obvious one)

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Re:DigitalOcean is laying off staff by kickopotomus on Friday January 17, 2020 @04:47PM (#22079775)

As of 2018, I believe they moved it to Google[1][2].

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/26/17053496/apple-google-clo...

[2]: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/26/apple-confirms-it-uses-googl...

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Re:DigitalOcean is laying off staff by ksec on Saturday January 18, 2020 @01:23AM (#22082736)

They are hosted on all three, AWS, GCP, and Azure as well as on their own Server in their own DC.

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Re:DigitalOcean is laying off staff by vira28 on Friday January 17, 2020 @02:02PM (#22077944)

thats a good point. For Oracle they should be appealing.

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Re:DigitalOcean is laying off staff by awb on Friday January 17, 2020 @01:48PM (#22077788)

> I dont think an existing cloud provider makes sense since they’ve all ramped their efforts pretty hard to compete with each other

Companies buy competitors all the time.

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Re:DigitalOcean is laying off staff by lallysingh on Friday January 17, 2020 @02:27PM (#22078223)

For acquirers, it makes more sense for it to be some other company that wants to add 'cloud provider' to their list of services. To avoid losing their customers to amazon or google or MS.

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Re:DigitalOcean is laying off staff by peteradio on Friday January 17, 2020 @04:03PM (#22079295)

Which seems like a good reason for the big ones to swallow it up.

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Re:DigitalOcean is laying off staff by enos_feedler on Friday January 17, 2020 @05:27PM (#22080185)

Or at least drive the price up in a bidding war. Whoever actually needs it the most will pay the most.

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Re:DigitalOcean is laying off staff by ogre_codes on Friday January 17, 2020 @02:40PM (#22078367)

Someone mentioned Cloudflare as a possible acquirer which makes a lot more sense than one of the big providers. Though I wouldn't be too surprised to see Google pick them up either.

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Re:DigitalOcean is laying off staff by teruakohatu on Friday January 17, 2020 @03:29PM (#22078873)

Cloudflare already controls a significant portion of the Internet. I really hope they do not swollow DO.

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