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Which is why a company operating cloud computing should just do that and nothing else. (And a company producing phones should also just do that and not start competing on the app marked. etc.)


Well it's a b2b business and YOU could vote with your wallet to take your business elsewhere.

As an aside, Amazon competitors like Walmart typically require their suppliers to host data on a platform other than AWS if they want access.


Except huge tech companies are incentivized to vertically integrate into selling their extra datacenter capacity. From there it's just an economies of scale game that a pure cloud company will have difficulty keeping up with (not saying it's impossible).




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