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Re:TimescaleDB vs. Amazon Timestream by nkozyra on Thursday December 03, 2020 @09:00AM (#25288859)
Breadth versus depth seems to be the play outside of their absolute core offerings. It allows people to dip their toes into something with minimal commitment and by the time they realize the shortcomings they might conclude that migrating for those features just isn't worth it.

So this give them a bit of lock-in. Come for the EC2, stay for the minimally viable queues, machine learning, containers, etc.

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Re:TimescaleDB vs. Amazon Timestream by nautilus12 on Thursday December 03, 2020 @09:27AM (#25289109)
This exactly, they are just trying to get their foot in the door in literally any idea someone else is already pursuing so that if it starts to make money they can start to put the juice on the engineering for that and take their market share.

The business model is solely focused on competing with and taking out other businesses, not actually providing any value. AWS is like a pack of sharks.

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