Sure, there are plenty of actual uses for RFID, what I meant is that most of the 'that'd be cool to play with' uses are impossible, and what is possible aren't the things you'd play with (I mean I don't have a warehouse, and for tracking stuff in my pantry it's impractical because of the reasons I mentioned earlier).
This is interesting, big companies are moving their enterprise switch / routers to open source software and Cisco is trying to lock it down. I think long term, Cisco will lose this battle.
And Spotify moved to Google Cloud. However, these are isolated cases that don't reflect on the average experience. For one, they most likely got a much, much better deal because of sheer volume. It still doesn't change the reality for companies with a handful, or even a few tens or hundreds of servers.
Netflix is also scaling up and down capacity based on time of day. Not to mention what they're paying isn't anything close to what you're going to pay. They negotiated pricing that would be cost effective for them, and I guarantee Amazon isn't making anywhere near the margin - they just want the brand recognition.
