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Re:“Standing Up for Us Plebs.” Amazon Leaders Reject Policy ... by jgalt212 on Friday December 10, 2021 @10:41AM (#29511162)
Without AWS and the pandemic, is there an Amazon as we know today (regardless of its internal policies and culture)?
Re:“Standing Up for Us Plebs.” Amazon Leaders Reject Policy ... by xibalba on Friday December 10, 2021 @12:34PM (#29512781)
Hard to say. The problem with time series' is that you only get one realization ;)

But I think reducing Amazon to an Ecomm/AWS duality goes too far. That said, I would bet that, yes, Amazon would still have been extremely innovative.