S2E6: Cloud Wars and The future Amazon

Now that the big three have reported earnings, let’s compare Cloud growth. AWS vs. Azure vs. GCP - The quarterly review Note: In the late 2000s, the top 5 public cloud companies' market capitalization was approximately 14Bil. Today those top 5 public companies have a market cap of over 600Bil, a 40x increase in the value in the past decade. What’s bigger news Jeff Bezos stepping down as Amazon CEO, Andy Jassy getting the job, or a new leader for AWS to be announced with Andy Jassy moving on? AWS is the logical evolution of Amazon, assembling undifferentiated units (books, VMs) to build higher-value service offerings; happy to iterate fast and fail in public if necessary as long as they learn something from it Amazon promotes Jassy after Microsoft promoted Nadella; cloud becoming more strategic https://twitter.com/counternotions/status/1357003413356228611?s=21 https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1357163267521531904?s=20 Recommendations/Rants Dominic iOS 14.5 Apple Watch unlocks iPhone Mike Anker Bluetooth Speaker: https://amzn.to/3jhdi9v Lilac Online ticket to ride Zack Turn your Apple watch into a full biometric reading device https://auraband.io Follow the show on Twitter @Roll4Enterprise or our LinkedIn page. Please send us suggestions for topics and/or guests for future episodes!