Following Amazon’s announcement late last year that it intends to rip its extensive network of Oracle Databases and replace them with its own technology, a recent blog post reveals that a big part of the AWS competitive strategy is to continue expanding its large and growing roster of “purpose-built” databases for the cloud. In the
Grocers, retailers, online marketers, package-delivery companies and now pharmacy/healthcare companies are facing savage competition from juggernaut Amazon—so why would any company in any of those industries voluntary subsidize bare-knuckle competing Amazon by choosing subsidiary AWS as its cloud-computing vendor? That’s a compelling question—but at least to date, Amazon’s aggressive expansion plans into multiple industries don’t
I wonder if Amazon cloud chief Andy Jassy knows—and takes any comfort from—the history of Bum Phillips? In the NFL during the 1970’s, Bum was the brash and colorful head coach of some fabulous Houston Oilers teams that could well have won a Super Bowl ring or two had it not been their misfortune to