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0 pointscardanome3y ago0 comments

> about competitors providing a better service

The point is you can NOT outcompete Amazon on that as a smaller company. They have economics of scale on their side, brand recognition, marketing budget, the whole AWS ecosystem that locks developers in. Even if you offered a better and cheaper service (which is not really realistic) then most customers would stick to AWS because they are hosting everything else on it and it is easier that working with multiple providers.

Are you not aware how monopolists work?

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arinlen3y ago· 1 in thread

> The point is you can NOT outcompete Amazon on that as a smaller company.

It looks to me that AWS only has around 30% of the cloud market, and CloudFlare is outcompeting AWS in some market segments oddly enough due to things like CloudFlare Worker's, which are developed from the V8 engine which is as FLOSS as it gets.

It looks like behind the thin veil of a badly formed "unfair competition" argument, there's only an irrational concern that revenue should be tied to rights to access software developed by a third-party.

Dylan168073y ago

I think "smaller" there is supposed to mean "on the small end" and not a direct comparison to Amazon. CloudFlare is not an example of such a company.

> irrational concern that revenue should be tied to rights to access software developed by a third-party

It's the rational concern that major developers of widely-used software should be paid.

zozbot2343y ago

And yet there's plenty of competition in the network infrastructure market, including by smaller players. You think DigitalOcean and Hetzner are not in a closely related market to AWS or Azure?

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