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Re:Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K peo... by yabatopia on Friday February 03, 2017 @05:40PM (#13563977)
Walmart doesn't have a cash cow like AWS. It's like a free money printing press that Amazon can use to fuel its logistics expansion.
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Re:Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K peo... by caminante on Friday February 03, 2017 @05:52PM (#13564057)
A cash cow is something different [0]. AWS requires increasing capex.

[0] http://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/cashcow.asp

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