When AWS, Azure, or GCP Becomes the Competition
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Re: When AWS, Azure, or GCP Becomes the Competition
#2It misses a couple of big ones:
1. Offer a great user experience. Many cloud providers are just pumping products out the door with little to no concern for UX.
2. Have great personality. That could be through offering outstanding support, or through being the kind of company that people root for. (Honeycomb.io is a good example of this.)
Re: When AWS, Azure, or GCP Becomes the Competition
#3It misses a couple of big ones: 1. Offer a great user experience. Many cloud providers are just pumping products out the door with little to no concern for UX. 2. Have great personality. That could be through offering outstanding support, or through being the kind of company that people root for. (Honeycomb.io is a good example of this.)
Curious, why do you say that about honeycomb specifically? Not that I've heard of them just seems pretty random.
Re: When AWS, Azure, or GCP Becomes the Competition
#4It misses a couple of big ones: 1. Offer a great user experience. Many cloud providers are just pumping products out the door with little to no concern for UX. 2. Have great personality. That could be through offering outstanding support, or through being the kind of company that people root for. (Honeycomb.io is a good example of this.)
Curious, why do you say that about honeycomb specifically? Not that I've heard of them just seems pretty random.
Good question.
While I think a bunch of nice people work there I have the feeling that the industry sees their opinions as quite controversial.
Re: When AWS, Azure, or GCP Becomes the Competition
#5It misses a couple of big ones: 1. Offer a great user experience. Many cloud providers are just pumping products out the door with little to no concern for UX. 2. Have great personality. That could be through offering outstanding support, or through being the kind of company that people root for. (Honeycomb.io is a good example of this.)
At the level of five- and six-figure software licenses, "personality" doesn't matter much to buyers.
True UX—not UI, which often gets confused with UX—could matter only if it affects org-wide adoption or ease of use for non-technical users.
Re: When AWS, Azure, or GCP Becomes the Competition
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
Curious, why do you say that about honeycomb specifically? Not that I've heard of them just seems pretty random.
Good question. While I think a bunch of nice people work there I have the feeling that the industry sees their opinions as quite controversial.
Ah, I had glanced at their landing page before posting above and just saw the product. I didn't realize they were outspoken about things. This makes more sense to me now.
Re: When AWS, Azure, or GCP Becomes the Competition
#7There are many more examples that I did not include. Like Redis (and AWS Elasticache), MongoDB, Cassandra, Akamai (and AWS Cloudfront), etc.
Any others?
Re: When AWS, Azure, or GCP Becomes the Competition
#8There are many more examples that I did not include. Like Redis (and AWS Elasticache), MongoDB, Cassandra, Akamai (and AWS Cloudfront), etc. Any others?
gitlab
Re: When AWS, Azure, or GCP Becomes the Competition
#9If you're doing anything ML related your best bet is to niche down and solve a very narrow problem for a specific industry / market segment. Building generic AI tooling sounds great but rarely solves anyones problems.
Re: When AWS, Azure, or GCP Becomes the Competition
#10Wait, isn't it like any other market which already has long lasting players?
If you want no competition -- find a new market (and win it). Otherwise you have to be smarter and faster than existing players.