> AWS is too big to really be competing fairly. They have vendor lockin on customers, an enormous war chest they can (and have) used for predatory pricing and they control, like, 1/2 the hosting market.
> With all that they can almost murder elastic search in their sleep without providing a better service.
> That will not just be bad for ES it will be bad for everyone who isn't Bezos.
There's a lot of businesses with a lot of budget who want to use ES and don't want to go near AWS. Let's not pretend there's not an enormous opportunity out there for a good hosted ES platform not on AWS.
AWS has lots of services. Customers like it when all of their cloud is managed under one roof (apparently).
AWS is definitely competing fairly, it's just... people like their offering better.
If they tell you they're not, what they're actually saying is that they've chosen a poor business model.
In this case, it looks like they've got a perfectly reasonable business, but they're upset it's not even bigger, and therefore they'd like a monopoly over ES hosting.
> It is monopolistic behavior and that is harmful.
The irony is strong here.
AWS is too big to really be competing fairly. They have vendor lockin on customers, an enormous war chest they can (and have) used for predatory pricing and they control, like, 1/2 the hosting market.
With all that they can almost murder elastic search in their sleep without providing a better service.
That will not just be bad for ES it will be bad for everyone who isn't Bezos.