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AMZN ain't making its profit selling books and toothbrushes. It's all the yummy egress and all the other markups you're paying for.
by throwup238 3y ago
AMZN ain't making its profit selling books and toothbrushes.
It's all the yummy egress and all the other markups you're paying for.
- cowthulhu 3y agoWho are all these people egressing gb/mo/customer? Does everyone except me work at Netflix?
- xyzzy_plugh 3y agoI agree it's a weird thing to obsess over. I have never seen egress mentioned, let alone approach the leaderboard in terms of costs.
- rendaw 3y agoI'm not sure I believe it, but they could reasonably make profit on economies of scale that individual organizations wouldn't get managing their own hardware - merged hardware utilization, sharing engineering efforts, standard hardware procurement, etc.