In reporting this story about how AWS wields its power in the cloud computing world, I found that time and again Amazon lifted open source turned it into a paid service and ended up making more money than the company behind the technology. https://t.co/S887cknzVX 1/x — Daisuke Wakabayashi (@daiwaka) December 15, 2019
$AMZN: Off-premise cloud computing still has a lot of room to gain share against on-premise data centers | Dec 2019
On-prem worst days are ahead, not behind. 70% public cloud penetration scenario would be particularly bad for on-prem players, if it plays out… pic.twitter.com/ZBkXjraUni — 1 Main Capital (@1MainCapital) December 11, 2019
$AMZN: Thread of things which fail differently / more surprisingly in the cloud than it does in the data center | Dec 2019
All right, Cloud Twitter. Tell me something that fails in the cloud differently / more surprisingly than it does in the data center. I've learned a lot about outages; teach me more! — Corey Quinn (@QuinnyPig) December 10, 2019
$AMZN: Location map of every Ring camera upload since Nov 2016 | Dec 2019
look at what we've done to ourselves https://t.co/VbAnxXoVWh pic.twitter.com/lu2fd3A8K0 — Jason Koebler (@jason_koebler) December 9, 2019
$ESTC: Amazon has the firepower to crush Elasticsearch but does it have the will? | Dec 2019
1/n Of course Amazon has the resources to compete with Elastic $ESTC. But do they have the will & incentive to keep going? we have to understand why amazon went after Elastic in the first place — mspacey (@mspacey4415) December 8, 2019
$S: Hundreds of thousands of phone bills of [Sprint customers] was left exposed and potentially viewable by anyone for an undetermined period of time | Dec 2019
Congratulations to @sprint on landing themselves a prestigious S3 Bucket Negligence Award! https://t.co/E8HxKuLc6T — Corey Quinn (@QuinnyPig) December 7, 2019
$AMZN: Thread of vendor booths at AWS re:Invent Conference 2019 (with commentary) | Dec 2019
All right, the @awscloud #reinvent Expo Nature Walk livetweet thread! — Corey Quinn (@QuinnyPig) December 5, 2019
$AMZN: Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) moat lies in the large number of next-generation companies which are built on it | Dec 2019
Demand for developers with knowledge of AWS has boomed in past 5 years. 14% of job listings require knowledge of AWS. Jobs listings that mention Azure also more than doubled but are only listed in 6.9% of postings today. Just 0.8% of job listings mention Google Cloud Platform. — TheHeart OfIt (@TheHeart_OfIt) December 3, 2019
$AMZN: Online marketplaces like Amazon “claim they are not legally responsible for deceptive content on their sites or even delivering the products as advertised” | Dec 2019
On #CyberMonday, remember that big online marketplaces like Amazon claim they are not legally responsible for deceptive content on their sites or even delivering the products as advertised. Unsurprisingly, fake reviews and fraud plague these platforms. https://t.co/y82ebq03Ze — Rohit Chopra (@chopraftc) December 2, 2019
$AMZN: Sales on Black Friday are shrinking in importance versus other retailer designated shopping days | Nov 2019
1./In 2018,🔸3.61% of Alibaba’s total GMV came from Singles Day🔸1.43% of Amazon’s total GMV came from Prime Day🔸1.39% of Shopify’s total GMV came from Black Friday Meaning that consumers showed less interest in BF as compared to the other two brand created shopping events. https://t.co/zrk6KMEtMD — Seun (@seunthesage) December 1, 2019