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Re:AWS’s Anti-Competitive Move Hidden in Plain Sight by saurik on Saturday March 18, 2023 @11:53AM (#35210095)
I mean, if you are building it yourself but on top of their cloud, why does it matter to them? And, if you are building it yourself and you aren't using their cloud, then you are already being charged egress bandwidth fees as your awkward differentiator (which is an entirely different issue).

Like, the premise of these offerings has absolutely no need to try to compete with stuff running on AWS as they are clearly barely taking any excess margin over running it yourself. I would always have said the goal of these offerings was to make it easier to use AWS so you didn't have to build it yourself (and some of this stuff is complex to get right).

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Re:AWS’s Anti-Competitive Move Hidden in Plain Sight by ginger-hot-tea on Saturday March 18, 2023 @11:27PM (#35215733)
> I mean, if you are building it yourself but on top of their cloud, why does it matter to them?

It matters when they see a profitable business opportunity in optimizing the bundled costs of the service offerings. And who can say "clearly" what the real margins are, especially at scale? All we know for sure is whatever those are, they are good enough for them to continue to offer these managed services.

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