Expect nearly 100,000 cloud aficionados, vendors, press, and analysts to swam the Venetian, Mirage, and Wynn hotels in what will likely be the largest cloud conference in history. I’ve also covered Amazon before, dinging them for their weak digital strategy in 2014, balanced with kudos for getting their digital act together in 2015. Playing the Amazon Cloud SkepticFor everybody out there enjoying Vegas while worshiping at the altar of Bezos, here is some food for thought. Amazon’s price-cutting strategy will soon peter outIn advance of this year’s re:Invent, Amazon Web Services (AWS), its cloud division, announced yet another price cut, this time to its cloud-based storage services. In fact, Amazon uses price cuts as a club to beat up its competition, leveraging its massive economies of scale as it plays the Walmart of the cloud.

Source: Forbes November 27, 2016 15:28 UTC