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Amazon built AWS to serve the book store and then rented it out to others. The Tesla analogy would be for them to sell their car parts/IP to other companies or
by helsinkiandrew 3y ago
Amazon built AWS to serve the book store and then rented it out to others. The Tesla analogy would be for them to sell their car parts/IP to other companies or build other peoples products in their factories.
- cinntaile 3y agoThe analogy would be their charging infrastructure imo and that's exactly what they have done.
- koolba 3y ago> Amazon built AWS to serve the book store and then rented it out to others. Except they didn’t. It was always meant to be its own line of business with external customers.
- helsinkiandrew 3y agoTechnically your correct - but the e-commerce infrastructure that built Merchant.com and then AWS came out of the technology and services built for and used by the Amazon.com platform