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Like many of the comments here, I'm very curious what counts as "R&D" spend by Amazon. My guess (and happy to be corrected if I'm wrong) is that it includes a b
by hn_throwaway_99 3y ago
Like many of the comments here, I'm very curious what counts as "R&D" spend by Amazon. My guess (and happy to be corrected if I'm wrong) is that it includes a big chunk of AWS capex spend. I think it's great that Amazon invested so much into AWS, but it then also isn't surprising that the company that runs a huge portion of the Internet has large "R&D" spend.
- ethbr1 3y agoExactly, or to put it another way, what would big tech companies classify the bulk of their expenses as, if not R&D?
- Marsymars 3y ago"Operations", I'd expect. If you imagine a tech company that declares that they're feature-complete, and they cut expenses to those required to maintain existing service to a high degree of quality/reliability, that seems like a reasonable benchmark of spending that could be classified as "not R&D".