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I suspect Amazon is not in hot water for AWS, there are major competing platforms and AFAIK no sketchy anti-competitive behaviour there. I'd have to guess its f
by TrueDuality 6y ago
I suspect Amazon is not in hot water for AWS, there are major competing platforms and AFAIK no sketchy anti-competitive behaviour there. I'd have to guess its for their "market" business.
They've been using pricing data from third parties and their own in house brands to take business from those third parties. There is also rampant illegitimate reprinting of independent book publishers.
- jasonv 6y agoYes, good point. That makes sense. EDIT: I thought it, but I think AWS might at least get mentioned. To your point, I also spent some time writing external pricing engines for an e-commerce channel push up to some of the marketplaces. We optimized pricing for buy box participation, but it'd be easy to write the whole thing off as unbalanced by disparate forces, Amazon itself being the most obvious. We re-priced based on the data we extracted from Amazon.
- screye 6y agoAWS is in constant competition with Azure and to a lesser degree GCP clawing it's way back. The competitors have both the resources and the aggressive commitment. AWS may be the leader, but it not a position that is easily maintained.
- creato 6y ago> There is also rampant illegitimate reprinting of independent book publishers. And rampant fraud enabled by "comingling" in the rest of their market.