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I can confirm. My team at Amazon was a customer of AWS just like every other team at Amazon is. Every department/subsidiary at Amazon charges one another for s
by AndrewUnmuted 8y ago
I can confirm.
My team at Amazon was a customer of AWS just like every other team at Amazon is. Every department/subsidiary at Amazon charges one another for services provided. We all operated as cost/profit centers.
In fact, as far as Amazon policies go, this may be the only one that actually satisfies every Leadership Principle [0].
[0] https://www.amazon.jobs/principles https://www.amazon.jobs/principles
- halfjoking 8y agoInteresting - I wonder if there is a PM at Amazon making deals behind the scenes: "Sure - I'll approve Steve's transfer to your department, as long as you give me 10K free compute hours for your API. Too pricey? I guess you don't want him then."
- reaperducer 8y agoI've seen this in other industries. When I was in television, Westinghouse would charge the television stations it owned for satellite time. The result was that big news from small places often only got to the national or regional desks by Greyhound Package Express. And by then, the news was old, so it rarely made air on the national news. It even happened on a local scale at some stations. The station's own promotions department had a budget and had to purchase commercial time on its own station. (Different company, not Westinghouse.)