• @tburkhol@lemmy.world
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    344 months ago

    Last time I looked at Amazon’s books, their retail arm was barely profitable. Most of their actual profits came from AWS.

    Azure (MS) or GCP (Google) are the alternatives.

    • @aseriesoftubes@lemmy.world
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      224 months ago

      Or if you want to avoid Big Tech altogether, there’s DigitalOcean, Akamai, Linode, IBM, Cloudflare, and a handful of other point providers.

      • Bob Robertson IX
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        514 months ago

        if you want to avoid Big Tech altogether, there’s … IBM

        If I had been drinking anything when I read that it would have ended up all over my screen.

      • @criss_cross@lemmy.world
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        44 months ago

        You have to be careful as some providers and PaaS use AWS under the hood.

        For example Heroku is essentially a nice skin over AWS.