Yes, if Amazon has an invalid patent on it. I think you actually know people personally that this has happened to.

I guess Walmart will need to find a new cloud host!

As someone who was a major vendor for Walmart, they are vehemently opposed to doing any business using AWS. They believe that AWS would gladly steal their company secrets regarding logistics and use it to gain any advantage they could possibly glean from those secrets. The logistics company I worked for also disallowed the engineering department to use AWS and settled on Azure cloud after examining that and Google’s offering instead.

>As someone who was a major vendor for Walmart, they are vehemently opposed to doing any business using AWS.

You are absolutely right. My comment was ment as a joke.

Also, I worked as a vendor for Walmart, too. They made it clear they didn't do business with vendors who were on AWS... so we "became multi cloud", but the stuff we hosted for them was TOTALLY on AWS.

Walmart has huge datacenters themselves. Whether or not they could or will compete is anyone's guess.

Hard to inspect account metadata / have chats with your engineers to learn how to build a better competitor if they do that.

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