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		richardw on Feb 11, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cloud Egress Costs Interesting that Google started on a system cobbled together from cheap servers, creating reliability out of unreliable components and against the Sun’s of the time. Now all the cloud vendors are effectively Sun.

quickthrower2 on Feb 11, 2024 [–]

Google was/is an infrastructure company (though one lens, of course it is also an ad company). Just like Amazon is a warehouse company.

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