New Delhi:
For years, Meta stayed away from one of Big Tech’s most profitable businesses — cloud computing.
Amazon built Amazon Web Services (AWS). Microsoft expanded Azure. Google scaled Cloud. Even AI startups today rent computing power like electricity.
Meta did not. But that may be changing now.
Just days after cutting nearly 8,000 jobs globally, Mark Zuckerberg hinted that Meta could eventually enter the cloud computing business. The signal came during the company’s annual shareholder meeting, where Zuckerberg admitted that competing with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud is “definitely on the table”.
The statement may sound casual. It is not.
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