No, this an incorrect analogy on most points. Amazon retail marketplaces are absolutely not correlated with distributed data centers. Most markets are served ou

No, this an incorrect analogy on most points. Amazon retail marketplaces are absolutely not correlated with distributed data centers. Most markets are served out of a single cluster, which is likely to be in a different country; eg historically all of Europe from dublin, the americas from virginia, and asia pacific from seattle/portland. The move of the retail marketplace hosting from seattle to virginia happened alongside, and continued long after, the start of AWS. It is an utter myth, not promoted by Amazon, that AWS was some scheme to use “surplus computing power” from retail hosting/operations. It was an intentional business case to get in to a different B2B market as a service provider.