Re:The Impending Cloud Reshuffle
by otabdeveloper4 on Friday December 03, 2021 @11:14AM
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Money is nice, but if you counted where the Internet's websites are hosted you'll probably see a different picture.
AWS solves mostly an accounting, not a tech problem.
AWS $16,000M revenue Q3 Azure $9,000M est revenue Q3 GCP $4,500M revenue Q3 OVH $181M revenue Q3 (~46M "cloud") Cloudflare $172M Q3 Hetzner $277M est revenue (2019 year)
A lot of customers find smaller providers very valuable. But the reason you see so many mentions of AWS/Azure/GCP is simply a reflection that yes, the bulk of hosted services in the world are based on those three. Yes the HN crowd might like the approach or thought of the smaller service providers, but they are much much smaller.