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Yes, massive cross subsidies from core business to cloud business to exclude and destroy competition - aws=books, azure=windows, gcp=search. There are three co
by sgt101 3y ago
Yes, massive cross subsidies from core business to cloud business to exclude and destroy competition - aws=books, azure=windows, gcp=search.
There are three companies doing monopolistic things, they have got away with it because of that plurality.
- senderista 3y agoAWS is vastly more profitable than Amazon's retail business.
- sgt101 3y agoIt is now. It wasn't in the past. It wouldn't be if they had to compete with providers that also wanted to compete.
- calimoro78 3y agoAWS was first to market for many years, and their margins were always higher than ecommerce retail (and that's easy to believe, since retail often runs on 1% margins)
- nine_k 3y agoAWS was basically built as an internal product to support the retail business, and then they realized that they can sell it.
- bcrosby95 3y agoThere's been several articles posted here over the years from people that worked at Amazon at the time saying this is just a myth.
- senderista 3y agoYes, hence the "MAWS" (Move to AWS) initiative to actually make retail services run on AWS (took many years).