> But that's not the worst of it. Suppose P2 storage became profitable and started to take business from S3. Amazon's slow AI has an obvious response, it can run P2 peers for itself on the same infrastructure as it runs S3. With its vast economies of scale and extremely low cost of capital, P2-on-S3 would easily capture the bulk of the P2 market. It isn't just that, if successful, the P2 network would become centralized, it is that it would become centralized at Amazon!
That is exactly what I said about a year ago, although I predicted centralization on BackBlaze instead of S3 because they had lower costs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14988800
That is exactly what I said about a year ago, although I predicted centralization on BackBlaze instead of S3 because they had lower costs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14988800