There are stories from the late 1800s/early 1900s of people creating private mail delivery services as competition to the US Postal Service.
There is even a story of the Federal government forcing these companies to make sure that the letters had postage even though they were NOT being delivered by the USPS. Customers would actually pay a premium over the postage to the private company because the overall experience with private company was better than the USPS.
I am wondering if something similar is going to happen with AWS: more and more private companies will charge a premium for services built on top of AWS (and therefore reliable) but much easier to use.
(I imagine this is probably already happening and I'm sure HN folks will point out examples).
PS In the end, these private mail companies were deemed illegal and went out of business.
Not sure if still the case, but remember watching a talk (around 2021) where they mentioned they were using different providers. Among them AWS for some regions.
There is even a story of the Federal government forcing these companies to make sure that the letters had postage even though they were NOT being delivered by the USPS. Customers would actually pay a premium over the postage to the private company because the overall experience with private company was better than the USPS.
I am wondering if something similar is going to happen with AWS: more and more private companies will charge a premium for services built on top of AWS (and therefore reliable) but much easier to use.
(I imagine this is probably already happening and I'm sure HN folks will point out examples).
PS In the end, these private mail companies were deemed illegal and went out of business.