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by colechristensen 2770 days ago
This is a shallow view of AWS and Amazon.

Amazon is successful because it has mostly everything in stock and can get most of it to you in 2 days. Amazon is logistics and trust. The trust is eroding and the logistics is worse because they're delivering things themselves, but still that is why it is.

AWS has more than Azure and GCP.

Appearances and experience aren't the whole of a product. Overfocus on them as a producer or consumer is a problem.

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That's the thing, it largely _doesn't_ have more than Azure or GCP these days. And for 80%, maybe 90% of all use cases in existence, AWS v Azure v GCP from a pure catalog offering perspective is identical. And when that compounds with other factors, it falls far behind.

Obviously Amazon.com is different and it's mostly about logistics, inventory and reduced buyer friction among some other things.