Amazon’s cloud-computing empire faces threat from edge of the network

There’s more pressure on the cloud computing industry’s Big Three to team up with wireless carriers, so they’re not left out of the burgeoning edge market. — Bloomberg

Three companies – Amazon.com Inc, Microsoft Corp and Alphabet Inc – quietly dominate the world of cloud computing.

With more more than 100 giant datacentres worldwide, they rent out computing power to all manner of customers, making billions of dollars along the way. In fact, cloud computing has done more to fuel Amazon’s earnings in recent years than its e-commerce business.