• tburkhol@lemmy.world
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    Last time I looked at Amazon’s books, their retail arm was barely profitable. Most of their actual profits came from AWS.

    Azure (MS) or GCP (Google) are the alternatives.

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      Or if you want to avoid Big Tech altogether, there’s DigitalOcean, Akamai, Linode, IBM, Cloudflare, and a handful of other point providers.

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        if you want to avoid Big Tech altogether, there’s … IBM

        If I had been drinking anything when I read that it would have ended up all over my screen.