I wonder if we could just build out that infra and trade or sell the know-how or tech to other countries. I’m sure a lot of countries out there are pretty darn interested in replacing AWS. Displacing them would be hard, cause it takes a lot of money, and so years, to procure all that hardware, but it’d already be a big win if people would even consider hosting their business sites or apps outside of AWS/Azure/GCP.
One of the main seeking points of those services, however, is that it’s easy for software businesses to expand to different geographical locations by just deploying the same thing they build to the new environment, and that’s an enormous barrier for cloud providers, easily separating the smaller fishes from the big ones. Being able to share that tech with friendlier countries or countries with sufficiently cordial relations, would make it easier for businesses to do that.
Of course we could. The process is the same as it’s been so far - producing open source software. There’s already open source starting points like OpenStack, OpenShift, K8S, etc. Low cost can make up for the lack of features or polish. Lot’s of people and businesses don’t need most AWS has to offer but some of the basics.
I wonder if we could just build out that infra and trade or sell the know-how or tech to other countries. I’m sure a lot of countries out there are pretty darn interested in replacing AWS. Displacing them would be hard, cause it takes a lot of money, and so years, to procure all that hardware, but it’d already be a big win if people would even consider hosting their business sites or apps outside of AWS/Azure/GCP.
One of the main seeking points of those services, however, is that it’s easy for software businesses to expand to different geographical locations by just deploying the same thing they build to the new environment, and that’s an enormous barrier for cloud providers, easily separating the smaller fishes from the big ones. Being able to share that tech with friendlier countries or countries with sufficiently cordial relations, would make it easier for businesses to do that.
Of course we could. The process is the same as it’s been so far - producing open source software. There’s already open source starting points like OpenStack, OpenShift, K8S, etc. Low cost can make up for the lack of features or polish. Lot’s of people and businesses don’t need most AWS has to offer but some of the basics.