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Why? Amazon relies on AWS and Amazon's in-the-trenches experience no doubt helps shape AWS. Ebay and Paypal split, but Paypal was worth a lot more than Ebay at

• wyldfire 6y ago
  The sheer scale seems really similar to the vertical integration of companies like Standard Oil. That alone doesn't necessarily mean that they're problematic, but it sure does suggest that we give them a closer look. If their scale allows them to be anti-consumer/anti-trade then that's bad.
  • Wolfenstein98k 6y ago
    Are they being anti-consumer/anti-trade tho? If their scale allows it then you may wish to look closer, but their scale also allows them to offer unprecedented value to customers, which is generally the highest value for commerce in the first place. Let's not destroy a good thing just because we can imagine it having some consequences.
  • ChrisLomont 6y ago
    Neither part has anywhere near monopoly power in respective markets: AWS ~32% of cloud, Amazon has ~37% of ecommerce. There's an incredible amount of other options for everything Amazon does.
    • wyldfire 6y ago
      Vertical integration is not a matter of market share -- that's horizontal integration.