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maayank on Aug 6, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Steve Wozniak: "I worry about everything going to ...

If I put my thesis paper and vacation photos on a service that uses EC2 as a backend, I'm not a competitor to either the service or Amazon.

If I'm the provider of said service, Amazon are a potential competitor.

simonbrown on Aug 6, 2012 [–]

Which is why you make sure that you can easily switch to something else if you need to.

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