[GravityLab]

SpaceX and Starlink are amazing but I wonder how much Kuiper’s access to the huge muscle that is AWS will bolster its chances of being #1? SpaceX definitely has the early bird advantage but Amazon knows products and the direct access to AWS could position Project Kuiper to dominate Starlink.

[sebzim4500]

I doubt it will make much difference, especially since iirc starlink already has direct conections to google's datacenters. Even if they can cut a few ms that is unlikely to overcome the advantages of Starlink over Kuiper

[GravityLab]

I did not know Starlink is using Google! Google definitely knows datacenters. Thanks for sharing.

[sebzim4500]

I don't know how much collaboration is actually involved, I think it's basically just a peering agreement

https://www.satellitetoday.com/broadband/2021/05/13/google-c...

[inemesitaffia]

It was more than peering. I don't know what it's like now, but Google ran the entire starlink terrestrial network. Including providing CGNAT. Starlink addresses showed up as Google Fi.

As I said I don't know the current state