Re:Announcing Google Cloud VMware Engine
by echelon on Friday May 15, 2020 @04:09AM
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> AWS is eventually going to lose its "monopoly" over cloud
How? I could see it becoming a duopoly with Azure, but Amazon has a huge lead that I don't see being lost. Customers shackled to AWS infra won't move. Development and egress costs are a huge moat.
Re:Announcing Google Cloud VMware Engine
by harpratap on Friday May 15, 2020 @08:28AM
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It's not about snatching away users from AWS, it's about gaining those first time cloud users. And in today's world it would be very foolish to not opt for cloud agnostic offerings and go for hybrid solutions
How? I could see it becoming a duopoly with Azure, but Amazon has a huge lead that I don't see being lost. Customers shackled to AWS infra won't move. Development and egress costs are a huge moat.