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Re:Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch com... by dathinab on Thursday April 23, 2020 @06:01PM (#22962058)
Which is why a company operating cloud computing should just do that and nothing else. (And a company producing phones should also just do that and not start competing on the app marked. etc.)
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Re:Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch com... by sfifs on Friday April 24, 2020 @12:25AM (#22964618)
Well it's a b2b business and YOU could vote with your wallet to take your business elsewhere.

As an aside, Amazon competitors like Walmart typically require their suppliers to host data on a platform other than AWS if they want access.

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Re:Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch com... by three_seagrass on Thursday April 23, 2020 @10:26PM (#22964015)
Except huge tech companies are incentivized to vertically integrate into selling their extra datacenter capacity. From there it's just an economies of scale game that a pure cloud company will have difficulty keeping up with (not saying it's impossible).
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