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>Amazon may be an excellent retailer, but they spend just as much money as they make on the shipping and fulfillment side to get shit on your doorstep faster an

>Amazon may be an excellent retailer, but they spend just as much money as they make on the shipping and fulfillment side to get shit on your doorstep faster and cheaper than anyone else out there. Each person that spends money on Amazon can only really spend a few hundred dollars per year. But even a small company that's entirely hosted on AWS, like 70% of the companies I've worked for, pays Amazon thousands of dollars per month for hosting But there are a lot more people than businesses, and an order of magnitude more people than businesses who both need custom hosting infrastructure and choose AWS.

adventured 10y ago
> But there are a lot more people than businesses, and an order of magnitude more people than businesses who both need custom hosting infrastructure and choose AWS. The first part is irrelevant, because almost none of those people will ever buy a service from AWS. The second part is false. An order of a magnitude more businesses are utilizing AWS than 'people.' AWS doesn't exist for consumers or average people, it's for businesses. That was the whole point of its existence: the primary customers of AWS are businesses, and always will be. It's where the radical majority of their sales come from, businesses with greater than 10 employees; not from solo developers spending $37 per month, and absolutely not from your average person that doesn't know anything about cloud computing.