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zodiacsnake t1_jea68gr wrote

Reply to comment by Aarschotdachaubucha in ‘Microsoft has a very anti-competitive posture in cloud,’ accuses Google by marketrent

It does make you wonder how an online bookstore ended up being one of the biggest players in cloud computing

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Aarschotdachaubucha t1_jea6lrf wrote

Being a giant logistics company means you need a very large inventory management system and an even larger POS website. They got tired of capacity planning meetings for data center infrastructure, and needed to find something to do with spare capacity that they needed two years from now, but would take 3 years to grow into.

Hence computer rentals on the Internet were born.

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