Jeff Bezos, the billionaire founder of Amazon and owner of The Washington Post, announced that he would be taking the storied newspaper in a new direction.
  • tburkhol@lemmy.world
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    2 days 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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      2 days ago

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

      • criss_cross@lemmy.world
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        1 day 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.

      • Bob Robertson IX @discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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        2 days 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.