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It is now. It wasn't in the past. It wouldn't be if they had to compete with providers that also wanted to compete.
by sgt101 3y ago
It 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).