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There&#8217;s nothing stopping them from getting operations so smooth that they decide to open a wal-mart branded public cloud option, competing directly with AWS\/Azure\/Google and the others.<\/p>\n<p>AWS has not created a panacea for public cloud.  It&#8217;s simply a good robust option at present.  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really say what specifically is driving Walmart in this direction.  I can see an organization like Walmart wanting to drive down operational costs with OpenStack and it may not be a slam dunk for them to just toss everything in the public cloud.  I think many will agree that the public cloud works best when apps are designed and optimized to run in it.  Given the huge inventory of apps that Walmart has, they may not have been in a position to make a big public cloud move.   Many others like GE for some of the big federal agencies for example have made the public cloud leap though and with very good economics.  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class=\"comment byuser comment-author-dmytton odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1 comment clearfix li-comment highlander-comment\" id=\"comment-1529670\" data-comment-id=\"1529670\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"div-comment\" id=\"div-comment-1529670\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"comment-meta clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"comment-author-avatar\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"avatar-placeholder\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/caa0ee22a59ee7a4fc261281940ccb54?d=retro&amp;s=55&amp;r=pg\"><\/a>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"comment-info\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<cite class=\"comment-author\">David Mytton<\/cite>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/gigaom.com\/2015\/03\/01\/for-retailers-the-buy-or-build-cloud-decision-looms-large\/#comment-1529670\" class=\"comment-permalink\">Sunday, March 1, 2015<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"comment-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"comment-text\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>If your competitor is offering utility services, the fact that they&#8217;re your competitor is a bad reason not to use them. Especially if the alternative is wasting a huge amount of resources on building your own, inferior capability. When it&#8217;s not part of your core differentiator, it should be provided by the best utility offering. <\/p>\n<p>There are plenty of examples of this. Netflix differentiates on the user experience, catalogue and unique shows. It leverages the efficiency of the AWS public cloud to do that. Apple differentiates on the integrated experience of high quality hardware + software. 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