I've always thought of Amazon as an Operating System, not in the typical way we see an OS (as something that resides on a small personal computer or server), bu

I've always thought of Amazon as an Operating System, not in the typical way we see an OS (as something that resides on a small personal computer or server), but a large abstraction that deals with higher level concepts, yet at the same time able to handle minute details and work with lower-level concepts (Think SKUs, receipts, billing etc) and higher level concepts like AWS, which Amazon runs on due to self dogfooding.