Amazon Web Services already dominates the market for cloud services. Now, reports The Information, it is eyeing a part of the cloud business it doesn’t already control: the $14 billion global market for data center switches [Editor’s note: the link may be paywalled; alternative source]. From the report: AWS is considering selling its own networking switches for business customers — hardware devices that move traffic around networks, according to a person with direct knowledge of the cloud unit’s plans and another person who has been briefed on the project. The plan could plunge Amazon more deeply into the lucrative enterprise computing market, posing a direct challenge to incumbents in the business like Cisco, along with Arista Networks and Juniper Networks. As it does in many other categories, Amazon plans to use price to undercut rivals. The company could price its white-box switches between 70% and 80% less than comparable switches from Cisco, one of the people with knowledge of the program estimated.
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