Amazon Will Spend Nearly a Year of AWS Revenue on AI Investments

Re:Amazon Will Spend Nearly a Year of AWS Revenue on AI Inve... by scarface_74 on Friday February 07, 2025 @07:06PM (#42978962)

What do you mean by making money? That’s not a simple question to answer. At the end of the day, all of AWS runs on a bunch of VMs that are spun up with a certain AMI depending on what the workload is. I’m sure AWS is charging enough to make the price more than the compute costs except for services that are completely free like CloudFormation.

If you mean do they cost more to develop than they are currently making for income, that’s how tech companies work - high fixed costs for initial development and low marginal costs that are spread across the customers.

They have started canceling projects where the cost of continued development doesn’t make a direct or indirect profit and don’t add to the ecosystem. The two I can think of most recently are CodeCommit (a very bad hosted git repository) and Cloud9 (hosted development environment).

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Amazon Will Spend Nearly a Year of AWS Revenue on AI Inve... by blackeyeblitzar on Friday February 07, 2025 @08:55PM (#42979632)

I mean that only a few of the services generate all the profit in AWS, and the rest are currently priced at a loss.

Surprised to hear they’re canceling some of them. That usually scares away developers.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Amazon Will Spend Nearly a Year of AWS Revenue on AI Inve... by scarface_74 on Friday February 07, 2025 @11:20PM (#42980351)

I mean it’s literally one command to retarget the remote url of your git repository and Cloud9 was just a remote hosted VSCode with some AWS extensions you can get locally

[ Parent | on HN ]