Friday, January 10, 2020

Why don’t large cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) design/build their own networking equipment?

My understanding is these companies build their own server/storage products (technically they design them and then ODMs build actual products). Why don’t they do the same thing with switches/routers instead of buying them from the Cisco’s and Aristas of the world?

Is there something fundamentally more challenging about networking vs compute/storage equipment?



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