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Despite the six figures listing fees he pays to Amazon he still has to blog it to get attention. Meanwhile, my less value AWS account gets less than 24 hour re
by DSingularity 6y ago
Despite the six figures listing fees he pays to Amazon he still has to blog it to get attention. Meanwhile, my less value AWS account gets less than 24 hour response time from actual humans.
- jfoster 6y ago> Meanwhile, my less value AWS account gets less than 24 hour response time from actual humans. For now...
- RcouF1uZ4gsC 6y agoYou can tell who Amazon values. It sees it’s sellers as easily replaceable. If you are no longer paying 6 digit listing fees, someone else will quickly take your place. With AWS, your business is harder to replace and more valuable.
- japanuspus 6y agoOr rather: you can tell who earns the money for amazon. Current revenue is pretty much 50/50 for AWS and advertizing -- retail is barely breaking even. Source: this weeks Economist article on Bezos stepping down.
- vidarh 6y agoThe difference is that AWS has high margins, because AWS services are expensive.
- Nextgrid 6y agoBecause unlike Amazon, AWS does not have a competitive moat, their product/service is a commodity that is offered by other competitors and can be trivially brought in-house if needed, thus they know they are already lucky just to get business in the first place and will do whatever it takes to retain that business.