Intelligence Update
Buying cloud at scale: Lessons from Lyft and Uber
When the ride-hailing company Lyft (a competitor to Uber) filed for its IPO (initial public offering) in March, one figure attracted particular attention in the mission-critical infrastructure industry: Lyft will pay Amazon Web Services (AWS) around $300M a year to provide cloud services. This is a very big number, especially when spread over, say, five years ($1.5B).
For that, Lyft gets a lot: data center capacity, organized into availability zones; IT infrastructure (processing, storage, network); a mass of tools for management, development, recovery, orchestration; and so on.
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