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Re:Ask HN: What are some successful startups built on top of... by jiggy2011 on Tuesday April 15, 2014 @03:12PM (#7593734)
They use aws as infrastructure but aren't inseparably welded to it. They could presumably switch to hosting elsewhere without changing their product itself.
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Re:Ask HN: What are some successful startups built on top of... by cnaut on Tuesday April 15, 2014 @06:03PM (#7594605)
You can see them as abstractions of AWS in some ways. An average consumer wouldn't go through the trouble of dealing with AWS to backup their files and even for developers heroku provides a nice level of abstraction
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Re:Ask HN: What are some successful startups built on top of... by mirador on Thursday April 17, 2014 @03:29AM (#7602369)
Agreed, that's the way I've seen these companies. AWS has truly become a layer that powers a huge part of the applications on the web.
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