Is Amazon s Cloud Control Like Microsoft’s Monopoly of the OS? Here’s how Amazon’s cloud strategy is and isn’t like Microsoft’s monopoly of the OS in the 90s.
If you glance at
antitrust scrutiny of Amazon s cloud computing business, it s easy to feel like it s the late 1990s all over again. Back then, Microsoft was facing similar charges, which culminated in a
2001 antitrust settlement with the federal government. Is Amazon heading toward a similar collision with government regulators? Or is it an exaggeration to
draw comparisons between Microsoft s 1990s-era embrace, extend, extinguish playbook and Amazon s present-day cloud strategy?