From my personal experience: - I pay more fees to Amazon to sell a product and take on more losses than other online marketplaces. - I had to quit Amazon S3 d

From my personal experience: - I pay more fees to Amazon to sell a product and take on more losses than other online marketplaces. - I had to quit Amazon S3 due to glitches hosting and streaming simple mp3 files. After days of troubleshooting, I just moved my files over to another service and all my problems went away. - Crappy video streaming. I stopped buying episodes and movies from them and just bought them on YouTube where the streaming and quality was much better, at the same price. - "AWS is arguably the best overall cloud service." Absolute Nonsense. But it's good to see their marketing efforts paid off. They offered good deals to startups which made them popular with Silicon Valley / Tech Crunch types. Every few months here on HN we get an "AWS vs Rackspace vs Other competitor" article. Amazon is NOT the best when it comes to price nor value. - The user experience is terrible, the control panel even worse. The Seller Control Panel behaves like it's from 1997. Not to mention: - The slave-like conditions in their warehouses that keeps those prices low which so many people have blogged about. Bezos is smart. But calling Amazon a master of something just because of their throughput quanity seems uncalled for. They're a giant company that was the first to make such a giant land grab in marketplaces & they use their weight to get to high places, not their "mastery".