Strypey
> As of now, AWS accounts for most of Amazon's profits.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-48634676
As if we needed another reason not to use or recommend #AWS. It's high time for every "ethical" tech company, #PlatformCooperative, #SocialEnterprise etc, to move to commodity hosting, or reveal themselves as a non-voting subsidiary of the #Amazone.
Strypey
> "[AWS] essentially meant companies that couldn't or didn't want to buy big servers of their own ..."
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-48634676
Either this is a piece of propaganda, not journalism, or this "technology reporter" knows sod all about this technology. Prior to AWS, most companies (or other groups) had no need for "big servers". A consumer-grade desktop running GNU/Linux was adequate for most uses. Anything more could be leased from an ISP. What #AWS changed was the pay-per-use pricing model.
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