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Re:Why the Computing Cloud Will Keep Growing and Growing by dragonwriter on Monday December 26, 2016 @10:24PM (#13261090)
What it actually sounds like is that AWS is not a focus of the reinvestment in R&D Amazon is famous for. Whether it's unusual in this respect, or whether this is typical of established business units and they focus R&D on new opportunities, I don't know.
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Re:Why the Computing Cloud Will Keep Growing and Growing by peller on Monday December 26, 2016 @10:35PM (#13261132)
Maybe? That didn't automatically follow for me - the "more than 100%" is pretty vague. Could it not also hypothetically be that some of the AWS unit's profit gets reinvested into AWS, thus bringing down the absolute value for operating income whilst not violating the percentage relationship?
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