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Re:Why I don't believe in Uber's Success by wnevets on Thursday January 19, 2017 @03:54PM (#13439394)
3.2 billion of revenue in one quarter [1] is is nothing to scoff at. However the more important point is without the profit from AWS, Amazon would still be posting huge deficits [2] and would probably face much higher shareholder pressure to produce.

[1] http://venturebeat.com/2016/10/27/aws-reports-3-2-billion-in...

[2] http://www.geekwire.com/2016/amazon-without-aws-online-retai...

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Re:Why I don't believe in Uber's Success by ben0x539 on Thursday January 19, 2017 @05:37PM (#13440122)
Isn't that an invalid assumption that Amazon would do nothing else differently if they didn't have AWS?
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