[talk] AWS Marketplace

[James E Keenan]

Way back in the Before Times, we had a NYCBUG presentation by Ike Levy 
with the title "Infrastructure in a Post-Cloud Era" 
(https://www.nycbug.org/index?action=view&id=10648).  The high concept 
for that talk could be described as, "Go Cloud or Colo?"  The larger 
subject matter could have been described as "the Business of High Tech."

I thought of that talk today when reading a post on Matt Stoller's 
Substack blog called Big (https://www.thebignewsletter.com/), which 
"focuses on the politics of market power and antitrust." The specific 
post I was reading 
(https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/did-a-private-equity-fire-truck-roll) 
is actually a guest post, but down near the bottom (search for "P.S. I 
got a lot of good feedback") Stoller reports on an email he got from a 
reader who describes the evolution of cloud computing into a financial 
platform, taking as prime example the case of AWS Marketplace as a place 
where software licenses can be bought and sold.

Being out of employment for years now, this was the first I had heard of 
AWS Marketplace or its peers run by Microsoft and Google.  It would be 
interesting to hear from readers of this list how the growth of these 
platforms has changed working in Tech in the past decade.