Will there be an Amazon of Europe? ??? Cloud Computing News

“First, Amazon was an Internet-only company that was able to exploit its scale in a one market (e-commerce) to another (public cloud infrastructure). Second, the US has a large developer and early adopter market that flocked to Amazon???s easy-to-spin-up compute instances. And third, Amazon faced tech competitors that were more concerned with protecting existing revenue streams than jumping into the cloud. It is still riding that first-to-market advantage.

???That combination of factors coming together at the same time doesn???t really exist in Europe,??? Hughes said.”