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Re:FedEx to close data centers, retire mainframes by Hnrobert42 on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @07:09AM (#31986763)
> that information infrastructure runs your company

This is silly. There is a lot more to FedEx than hosting physical compute infrastructure. FedEx doesn’t own all its own airports. A CSP is just another vendor.

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Re:FedEx to close data centers, retire mainframes by dsr_ on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @09:34AM (#31988017)
At almost every airport that FedEx has an operation at, there is another airport within 100 miles that could be used instead, managed by a different company. The barrier to changing is not controlled by the airports.

That's a competitive environment.

How many major cloud providers exist, and what could they do to make it difficult for FedEx to leaving for another one?

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Re:FedEx to close data centers, retire mainframes by moralestapia on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @10:08AM (#31988357)
>How many major cloud providers exist

Plenty! AWS is HUGE but hardly a monopoly.

>what could they do to make it difficult for FedEx to leaving for another one

If the guys running this at FedEx are smart, not much. There are ways to deploy all of this in a platform-agnostic way.

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Re:FedEx to close data centers, retire mainframes by twblalock on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @08:07PM (#31995270)
AWS, Azure, and GCP are all operating at large scale and compete with each other directly. There are other providers too. It’s definitely a competitive environment.
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