AWS Drives More Than Half of Amazon's Operating Income

Re:AWS Drives More Than Half of Amazon's Operating Income by samstave on Friday February 01, 2019 @10:47PM (#19060901)

ANd what better what to obfuscate actual company footing - and real power than to prevent people from looking at, analyzing or even knowing what level of error margins you're capable of floating in a downturn.

What better way to additionally hedge against that than to have a many-billion-dollar contract for hosting with the government.

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Re:AWS Drives More Than Half of Amazon's Operating Income by anongraddebt on Friday February 01, 2019 @11:41PM (#19061125)

Exactly. Your comment is the most astute so far in this thread.

Amazon is a cash cow that simply feeds a relatively decentralized innovation engine. Moreover, the strategic moves they make (intentionally keeping GAAP margins thin, not separately disclosing AWS in the financial statements for years, etc.) should always be assumed to come from multiple, well-considered motivations.

Someone says, "It's just customer-obsession." Yes, that's the simple myth/story they want you to believe.

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