Target is plotting a big move away from AWS as Amazon takes over retail
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Re: Target is plotting a big move away from AWS as Amazon takes over retail
#2Who remembers when Target's website was hosted by Amazon.com (not AWS)? Probably 6 or 7 years ago now. IIRC Toys'R'Us was also but left earlier.
Re: Target is plotting a big move away from AWS as Amazon takes over retail
#3The article missed one huge factor: date farming by AWS/Amazon.
If one has data on pricing and sales across retail and online channels on a national scale, how risky would a purchase of a retailer really be? Not much, as you can pivot towards high sales, high profit products without doubting your strategy
Target, Walmart & other retailers de-risked Amazon's purchase of wholefoods
Re: Target is plotting a big move away from AWS as Amazon takes over retail
#4The article missed one huge factor: date farming by AWS/Amazon. If one has data on pricing and sales across retail and online channels on a national scale, how risky would a purchase of a retailer really be? Not much, as you can pivot towards high sales, high profit products without doubting your strategy Target, Walmart & other retailers de-risked Amazon's purchase of wholefoods
Do we know Amazon's policy on "peeking" into people's AWS data? I feel like they would have something against that in their ToS/Privacy Policy.
Re: Target is plotting a big move away from AWS as Amazon takes over retail
#5I don't know how strategic that move is in this case. It's not going to slow down Amazon's retail growth, and it'll just cost Target more to transition. They should have sound reasons to move away, like if they found cheaper and better alternatives. I don't know, it feels a little desperate from my point of view.
Re: Target is plotting a big move away from AWS as Amazon takes over retail
#6The article missed one huge factor: date farming by AWS/Amazon. If one has data on pricing and sales across retail and online channels on a national scale, how risky would a purchase of a retailer really be? Not much, as you can pivot towards high sales, high profit products without doubting your strategy Target, Walmart & other retailers de-risked Amazon's purchase of wholefoods
Do we know Amazon's policy on "peeking" into people's AWS data? I feel like they would have something against that in their ToS/Privacy Policy.
They're the system admins on all their managed databases. Think about it
Re: Target is plotting a big move away from AWS as Amazon takes over retail
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do we know Amazon's policy on "peeking" into people's AWS data? I feel like they would have something against that in their ToS/Privacy Policy.
They're the system admins on all their managed databases. Think about it
and lose any credibility? Lets throw away our entire cloud revenue to look at the raw data rather then scraping the public site? Please. This is tin foil hat crazy
Re: Target is plotting a big move away from AWS as Amazon takes over retail
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do we know Amazon's policy on "peeking" into people's AWS data? I feel like they would have something against that in their ToS/Privacy Policy.
They're the system admins on all their managed databases. Think about it
If they do it there would be someine at some point who would leak information about this. And this will probably much worse than loosing some customers.
Nonetheless with Amazon Marketplace they already habe a platform where they know every transaction, price and product from third parties.
Re: Target is plotting a big move away from AWS as Amazon takes over retail
#9Re: Target is plotting a big move away from AWS as Amazon takes over retail
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do we know Amazon's policy on "peeking" into people's AWS data? I feel like they would have something against that in their ToS/Privacy Policy.
They're the system admins on all their managed databases. Think about it
Not that Target is well-known to be good at security, but if AWS was discovered snooping on their data that would probably be the end of their business. Not to mention the tsunami of lawsuits launched by other companies spooked by the scandal.
I can't imagine any manager or engineer willing to risk their career doing so.
Then again, a director at Volkswagen agreed to intentionally cheat emissions tests, so perhaps an Amazon employee would be foolish enough to snoop on Target's data.