If AWS is so overpriced, why isn't Amazon profitable?

If AWS is so overpriced, why isn't Amazon profitable? Colo is only cheap if you have cheap sysadmins and have a very predictable non-decreasing long-term compute need.

Posted by judk on Jul 31, 2014, 6:04 AM

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