Re:AWS’s Share of Amazon’s Profit
by boredpudding on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @04:24AM
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This article is about how much profit from Amazon comes from AWS. Not how big of a 'client' Amazon is in AWS itself.
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Re:AWS’s Share of Amazon’s Profit
by thenaturalist on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @06:35AM
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Well, if you read the parent comment here again, I hope you can understand that "how big of a 'client' Amazon is in AWS itself" is _precisely_ about estimating profits for AWS.
The fact that Amazon is self-serving AWS resources is obfuscating profit calculations or estimates as there is no way of determining ROI on assets Amazon consumes itself - most likely in a somewhat shared model together with other, actually paying customers.