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0 pointsoblio2y ago0 comments

The real question is: why aren't they? They had the infrastructure needed to seed a cloud offering 10 years ago. Heck, if Oracle managed to be in 5th (6th? 7th?) place, Facebook for sure could have been a top 5 contender, at least.

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krschultz2y ago

Because they make more money using their servers for their own products than they would renting them to other people. Meta has an operating margin of 41% AFTER they burn a ton on Reality Labs, while AWS has a 21% margin with more disciplined spending. Social media is a more profitable business than infrastructure.

elbear2y ago

Does Meta make money from anything other than ads? It's not a dismissive question. I'm curious if social media implies anything other than ads.

oblioOP2y ago

> Advertising (over 97.8% of revenues): the company generated over $131 billion in advertising, primarily consisting of displaying ad products on Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and third-party.

https://fourweekmba.com/how-does-facebook-make-money/

Thaxll2y ago

Because it's not their business, they're not good at it and probably the ROI is not worth it.

Also how exactly they would do it, they don't have enough infra for renting, they would need to x10 what they have now.

KaiserPro2y ago

because meta sucks at software, documentation and making sure end user products work in a supported way.

Offering reliable IaaS is super hard and capital intensive. Its also not profitable if you are perceived as shit.

logicchains2y ago

>because meta sucks at software

Google started a cloud and their user-facing software is atrocious. Compared e.g. Angular to React, Tensorflow to Pytorch.

negus2y ago

Why would you prefer Pytorch to Tensorflow/Keras?

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