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Over last 6 months aws made money than the entire retail business.
by samfisher83 8y ago
Over last 6 months aws made money than the entire retail business.
- chriselles 8y agoIt would appear AWS is the entire profit Center of Amazon. With Amazon retail business being run as a non profit, until such time as conditions compel Amazon to raise prices higher. If Amazon’s shareholders allow Amazon to continue running retail as a non profit(as they have for over 20 years), then I think this will continue until Amazon maxes out at whatever the ceiling retail market share is for a single company. But I think Amazon’s non profit retail land grab could continue for another 10-20 years. Besides shareholders stopping Amazon, I envisage the only things that can stop the Amazon Borg Cubes are: 1)Government regulatory “shields” being raised 2)Web/Cloud Services getting ruthlessly competitive and margins plummeting. Just my personal thoughts.
- zenbane 8y agoIsn't this supposed to be illegal? I was once taught that anti-trust laws were put in place to prevent predatory pricing. Amazon doesn't need to make any profit on retail as long as AWS can support it.