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Amazon Web Services Isn't Making a 'Commercial' Networking Switch, Cisco Says (geekwire.com)
A week after a report claimed that Amazon Web Services was building its own bare-bones networking switch in a potential threat to networking giant companies, Cisco says it has checked with Amazon, with which it has long maintained a relationship, and it has been assured by the ecommerce giant that is not entering its territory. From a report: AWS CEO Andy Jassy and Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins had a "recent call" from which Robbins walked away satisfied that AWS wasn't "actively building a commercial network switch," Marketwatch reported Wednesday, citing a statement from Cisco that it confirmed as authentic with AWS. That follows a report last week from The Information that AWS was working on a so-called "white-box switch," which the site portrayed as a frontal assault on Cisco that sent networking stocks slumping on a lazy summer Friday afternoon.
You have to make the dog food, then eat your own dog food. And then, it becomes commercial dog food. This is the way of AWS already. Right now, they're just making this for themselves - any future application is pure coincidence.
"We reminded Amazon of the contract language that prohibits them from selling competitive hardware devices or face immediate loss of support and revocation of all software licenses."