{"id":14216,"date":"2015-05-07T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3330718"},"modified":"2015-05-07T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T13:30:00","slug":"tune-into-the-cloud-price-tag-by-gregorpetri-cloudexpo-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/tune-into-the-cloud-price-tag-by-gregorpetri-cloudexpo-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Tune into the Cloud: Price Tag By @GregorPetri | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most famous quotes of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is \u201cYour Margin is My Opportunity\u201d. This illustrates nicely how in the world of Amazon (and in the words of UK\u2019s pop idol Jessie J*): \u201cIt\u2019s not about the money\u00b3, we do not need your money\u00b3, we just wanna make the world dance!\u201d<br \/>\nIn the cloud this \u2013 a bit unworldly \u2013 attitude is fairly normal. Think of Facebook buying WhatsApp for about $ 16 billion, only to make it available for free to large parts of the world via Internet.org. For more traditional competitors this kind of \u201csemi-philanthropic\u201d way of doing business takes some time getting used to.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3330718\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most famous quotes of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is &ldquo;Your Margin is My Opportunity&rdquo;. This illustrates nicely how in the world of Amazon (and in the words of UK&rsquo;s pop idol Jessie J*): &ldquo;It&rsquo;s not about the money&sup3;, we do not need your money&sup3;, we just wanna make the world dance!&rdquo;<br \/>\nIn the cloud this &ndash; a bit unworldly &ndash; attitude is fairly normal. Think of Facebook buying WhatsApp for about $ 16 billion, only to make it available for free to large parts of the world via Internet.org. For more traditional competitors this kind of &ldquo;semi-philanthropic&rdquo; way of doing business takes some time getting used to.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3330718\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14217,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14216\/revisions\/14217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}