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Re:Walmart Joins Talks to Buy TikTok by rfoo on Friday August 28, 2020 @04:07AM (#24302488)
Because the product TikTok itself, is not targeted at users in China? TikTok is more like "Douyin International", or say, there is a separate "TikTok China" named Douyin. So whether these cloud services operates in China is irrelevant.

Its China version Douyin also uses a mix of Aliyun and their own infrastructure, so ByteDance likely have plenty of experience operating in multi/hybrid cloud environment.

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Re:Walmart Joins Talks to Buy TikTok by fomine3 on Friday August 28, 2020 @04:13AM (#24302515)
I know that TikTok isn't operated in China but If I were TikTok dev, I'll think something like: adopt AWS/Azure to make possible to share code between Douyin and TikTok (just possibility, for future).

I also suspect that Google Cloud's learning resource in Chinese is fewer than AWS/Azure.

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Re:Walmart Joins Talks to Buy TikTok by rfoo on Friday August 28, 2020 @08:14AM (#24303929)
> Google Cloud's learning resource in Chinese is fewer than AWS/Azure

Yes, that's true. But it's not like there are a lot of learning resources in Chinese for AWS/Azure, either. At least compared to Aliyun (Alibaba Cloud). So likely it doesn't matter.

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