SpaceX and Starlink are amazing but I wonder how much Kuiper’s access to the huge muscle that is AWS will bolster its chances of being #1? SpaceX definitely has the early bird advantage but Amazon knows products and the direct access to AWS could position Project Kuiper to dominate Starlink.
I doubt it will make much difference, especially since iirc starlink already has direct conections to google's datacenters. Even if they can cut a few ms that is unlikely to overcome the advantages of Starlink over Kuiper
It was more than peering. I don't know what it's like now, but Google ran the entire starlink terrestrial network. Including providing CGNAT. Starlink addresses showed up as Google Fi.
