Re:Amazon Managed Service for Grafana
by judge2020 on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @01:42PM
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Except that Amazon isn't "a two pizza team", it's a 1.5 trillion dollar company that could replicate any startup ever with 6-12 months and a hundred engineers.
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I think in the business world this would be called "not having a moat." There's basically only one to proceed if your product can be semi-trivially copied by someone throwing money at the problem. You have to sell it to them for less than it would cost to build in-house. Sure they could throw money at the problem but they won't when it's cheaper to just buy it.
Re:Amazon Managed Service for Grafana
by manigandham on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @02:49PM
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When you have that much money, moats don't matter.
Re:Amazon Managed Service for Grafana
by treeman79 on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @03:30PM
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Code commit.
It is so horrible compared to GitHub.
Don't forget their continued lack of anything to compete with Heroku (that is, hook up to GitHub, deploy automatically from master, with less than 20 clicks in the web UI).
EBS was never it, and Lambda is a different type of product (and also won't autodeploy from your GitHub master without custom CI/actions/whatever).
Then there's Lightsail, which is perhaps the lamest DO ripoff that could possibly be engineered. I'm sure there are other examples, too, but those are the ones with which I'm familiar.
Re:Amazon Managed Service for Grafana
by manigandham on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @04:17PM
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It doesn’t guarantee that they can execute, only that they can easily do so with that much money. Not everything needs to be conquered nor makes sense to do so at that scale.