Well, if Amazon spun off AWS they would have no choice but to treat all the retail-side issues (counterfeit goods, BS reviews, garbage search results, shoddy de

Well, if Amazon spun off AWS they would have no choice but to treat all the retail-side issues (counterfeit goods, BS reviews, garbage search results, shoddy delivery subcontracts, facilitating the sale of stolen merchandise, warehouse working conditions) as actually worthy of Day 1 focus. Are they ready to do that? Unfortunately it's not as glamorous as building rocket ships, buying news companies or building web service infrastructure...