Amazon’s growing clout in cloud computing stirs questions

Retailers have long feared Amazon.com and the ease with which it has undermined the business of shopping on Main Street. Publishers have grown increasingly concerned about the online retail giant’s growing power in the book business, where it has become the largest purveyor of digital and print titles.

In the past decade, Amazon has come to dominate yet another business: cloud computing. And now, as Amazon Web Services solidifies its grip on the business of selling computing services to companies over the Internet, it’s having to answer the sort of questions that dogged Microsoft when it ruled desktop computing:…

 

Will it lock customers in to its technology? Will it squish smaller tech companies that pioneer AWS niches when those businesses become lucrative?…

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