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Re:Amazon and the “profitless business model” fallacy (2013) by antonvs on Friday December 24, 2021 @02:14AM (#29671167)
> Google also had zero enterprise experience.

Same was true of Amazon.

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Re:Amazon and the “profitless business model” fallacy (2013) by bushbaba on Friday December 24, 2021 @11:48AM (#29675090)
Amazon’s internal stack was very similar to other tech companies. Google did everything custom and different than the pack. E.g. google web toolkit over JavaScript. Containers vs VMs. Bigtable/spanner vs Mongo/Cassandra.

At the time, Amazon might not have had enterprise sales teams. But they had deep expertise in running the familiar suite of enterprise software at scale.

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