Amazon is More Interesting than Google
But the world has changed, and Google can’t seem to keep up. Amazon has become the polar opposite of Google, empowering every developer on the planet to make incredible technology. Want MapReduce? Amazon has you covered. Want to play with terabytes of data like it ain’t no thing? Check. Want to launch thousands of servers to handle a tough computation? Check, check, and check. Want to launch thousands of human brains to solve otherwise unassailable problems? No problem. Heck, want to simply send email to your users? They have that too.
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Amazon embraced much more pragmatic and commercially-driven approach to technology than Google. While the latter company may seem more open, eventually it may lose the hearts of developers for its inability to successfully commercialize the results of its R&D, effectively reducing them to impractical toys.
