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0 pointsNursie6y ago0 comments

That's the economic flaw in all of this - Amazon have economies of scale and access to cheap power and network connectivity and that means smaller competitors will be locked out of the market.

You're not going to be running a node on your spare capacity that brings in more than your costs, in fact unless you're a datacentre operator, you're going to be making a loss.

In the end it favours big centralised services, and IPFS (if it ever takes off) just becomes a rival API to S3.