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by danpalmer 1786 days ago
It boils down to 2 factors:

- Giving money to a competitor (even if the product you're paying for isn't competition). This can be hard to justify to e.g. shareholders as being financially responsible.

- Potentially giving away trade secrets to Amazon, either in patterns of usage of AWS, or in actual data that AWS stores.

I would hope the latter is an unnecessary worry, but we've seen them clone retail products from others again and again based on best-selling or high margin products, so why not use intelligence from AWS? I assume it happens at some limited level.