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I’m conflicted. On one hand Rackspace used to have some great offerings and tech chops and then (wisely?) became a cloud intermediary.

Is AWS professional services for a company that has went through the transition Rackspace has worth a $100m IPO? (Assuming I read the S-1 correctly).

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fwiw 100M is a placeholder amount for how much the company plans to raise via a stock sale; usually no bearing to the actual value/market cap of the company or how much the company raises

I am only familiar with Rackspace of about 10 years ago. Beyond the marketing speak, what is their competitive advantage? Are they doing AWS prof serv?

They do AWS professional services since last year (I think) but we mainly use them for support as AWS doesn't cater for companies our size with their pricing.

Yeah, they acquired Onica which was/is a decently sized AWS prof services company. Not sure how much they were doing before then.

GCP, AWS and Azure now as well. They still have a bunch of on-metal, physical, and cloud customers as well.

Ah I didn’t realize that.

You pay them so your ops team has someone to blame

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