Of course a lot of software goes into making AWS work. Is AWS a software business or a hardware business though? It certainly lets me get away from hardware. Bu

Of course a lot of software goes into making AWS work. Is AWS a software business or a hardware business though? It certainly lets me get away from hardware. But I don't think that's true for AWS itself... I mean, this conversation can keep going - I'm not really interested in digging in deeply to find the answer, because I don't think there's anything meaningful to be found. But I do object to scratch-the-surface level analysis like "Amazon is a valuable company these days, I guess the innovation happening in software outpaces all other fields of research combined" or "AWS makes most of Amazon's profit these days, which makes Amazon a software company". Amazon might be a software company, but it might not be; it might be a logistics company, a consumer electronics company, a retail company, a data analytics company, a media company, a server farm company... it's not enough to say that AWS makes the most money, thus it's a software company.