Amazon seems to have pushed "customer obsession" over overt competitiveness from "the beginning". Regardless of motivations, it seems to act as a kind of shiel

Amazon seems to have pushed "customer obsession" over overt competitiveness from "the beginning". Regardless of motivations, it seems to act as a kind of shield from allegations/evidence of Microsoft-style anti-competitiveness. The difference is internal emails saying "customers are demanding a better way to run document-oriented databases" instead of talking directly about leveraging AWS market power against $MDB.