There is some relation there, though. The obviously use their own infrastructure to run Amazon, which has significant scaling/infrastructure requirement. Initia

There is some relation there, though. The obviously use their own infrastructure to run Amazon, which has significant scaling/infrastructure requirement. Initially, of course, AWS was the "space capacity" at Amazon, now their total capacity vastly exceeds what their store needs. I think though that Amazon will probably remain more of a conglomerate, rather than divesting any parts of its business. Instead, it seems to add more and more brands, services, etc. In the long this will probably be good for them, since they'll be able to effectively integrate the experience of customers across all brands/services/etc.