AWS Dominance Debate

because your competitors are probably using services that depend on AWS.

AWS has competition in Azure and Google Cloud, and AWS is the money maker for Amazon, everything else is incidental.

None of these are contradictory. Numerous companies brought on then found the offerings were not up to par of AWS. And as one of only three major well known cloud providers they are competitive enough as to be a close call when counting pricing advantages, but still have very small market share and therefore not a factor were they to disappear -- people would just move to AWS.

I don't think that's quite comparable. Contrary to platforms like Google App Engine or iOS, the core infrastructure AWS offers is sufficiently open and commonplace that you wouldn't have such a hard time moving away from them in the unlikely event that they'll throw you out. This is simply a case of a much more classical business dilemma: a big company decides to build a product that competes with your small company. The somewhat strange thing about this case is that the big company is also prov

Well there's two problems with your question. One is that there is no other massive cloud service to compare with AWS. Every other large hosting solution is more classical with managed hardware and maybe virts being the most high-level offering for most of competitors. Nobody important uses MS or Google's cloud, and if they do, they don't like talking about it because they probably feel it gives them a competitive advantage and nobody notices when they go down anyway.

Why antitrust? The cloud market is highly competetive and AWS only have about 1/3 market share.

Think about it from Amazon's perspective. $===$===$ every day of the week. Their AWS devision would be smart not to consider that they are providing their competitor with a good product/platform. And for Netflix, if they are getting a great platform (cheap, powerful, good support, etc) then why not? They should be beating their competitor on creative grounds.

AWS has two competitors, so I'd make the same argument back to you.

anyone paying attention realizes AWS has been permanently 2-3 years ahead of everyone else, and that's being generous, in terms of capabilities. the reason is they are one of the few companies in a position to both offer extensive cloud services and eat their own dogfood on a massive scale. this, combined with AMZN's obsessions with undercutting competitors on price, locks them into the head of the pack. in the long run, it will just be GOOG, MSFT, AMZN, and maybe CRM or other large scale

What alternative does someone need to make to compete with AWS?