I worked on both sides. I mostly agree except there are cases of important projects including AWS (like some of the ML work), also the whole aws usage discount/

I worked on both sides. I mostly agree except there are cases of important projects including AWS (like some of the ML work), also the whole aws usage discount/pricing thing is pretty huge and clearly the value in being within the same company. Retail would have a pretty hard time existing nowadays if they weren’t connect to aws imho.