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A comment on AWS’s Share of Amazon’s Profit. Parent comment

Re:AWS’s Share of Amazon’s Profit by ezeev on Monday June 15, 2020 @07:40PM (#23534357)
If you're building on AWS properly, your usage scales with demand. So a huge bill should mean you have huge demand.
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Re:AWS’s Share of Amazon’s Profit by dx034 on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @06:46AM (#23549939)
Only servers used for client requests. Dev and integration environments but esp data crunching can be a lot more expensive than serving web requests. And they're hard to keep cheap if you scaling is easy.
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