Big cloud providers (and esp. Amazon) can likely build a better service within ±6 months if they wanted to, so I don't think it makes much sense for Amazon/Google/Microsoft to buy Netlify.

As a side note, Github already does a more than competent Netlify competitor for static webpages.

Calling GitHub a competitor for static sites seems like a real stretch

bullshit - AWS has existed for years and their UI is atrocious. Netlify's UI meanwhile is delightful to use and predictable. You can get something up and running in no time flat, even without Netlify experience.

To be fair, any of the big tech monopolies can replicate anything out in the marketplace today for less than $100M.

How's AWS lightsail working out as a DO competitor?

And how long will it take them to acquire 1M+ users?

Sometimes “building” isn’t the hardest part.

Been waiting for years for startups to start paying users to join

Have you tried using Amplify?

This can go really close to antitrust laws - I am not sure if the risk is worth it.

As far as I am concerned, the US is not going to go after tech monopolies outside of maybe Facebook. They are quite literally taking over the world and that’s bringing a lot of money and benefits to US interests. The US is a commerce first country. They will never stand in the way.

If we were doing things right and wanted to really benefit from having these giants around, we'd go 1950s-Japan on them and harness them to drive a broader prosperity-increasing economic engine, while still letting them thrive and grow huge, while guiding them to advance broader economic-strategic goals.

Having them around and so globally dominant is a huge opportunity, and one that won't last forever. But I doubt we'll use it like we could before that time's over.

How? There’s Vercel and Cloudflare to compete against.

It’s not about being a monopoly, it’s leveraging their power in other markets to have an advantage in this market.

Or Cloudflare