Comment on Microsoft Can't Keep EU Data Safe From US Authorities

• Doomsider@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It was control. I guess money comes along with that.

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  • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No I’m pretty sure money was the original reason. AWS was the first big cloud player and it quickly became the most profitable part of Amazon.

    Now Microsoft already had more money than they know how to use, they may indeed have been looking for control first and foremost. But the idea of cloud in general was about exploiting economies of scale to make more money

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    • Doomsider@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Money has become secondary to control for a long time now.

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