Meanwhile in data services:
as you may know Amazon Web Services, the cloud computing, data storage division is the most profitable part of the Amazon;
Well, now Lidl, the discount supermarket (following AWS' path of first providing for its own needs & then selling spare capacity) has entered the market for data services.
Given the impact of the discounters on the supermarket sector are we about to see more competition in personal & commercial digital storage?
#data #cloudcomputing
h/t FT
Emeritus Prof Christopher May /
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