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What is the basis for creating a peer group (dubbed FAMGA) or unrelated businesses? Comparing Facebook’s growth (a social media platform) to Amazons (retail and cloud computing) seems pointless.

An important distinction re: territorial taxes is that if there is no settlement of the difference between a foreign tax rate and a home country tax rate then companies are incentivized to artificially earn as much of their income as possible in low tax jurisdictions.

The public facing platform is just one of many products twitter offers. They also offer advertising that is probably considered its own product...

You can also do C# now and there is methods to get Scala and Go. Lots of choices for language.

The cost ceiling are the initial resource limits. Maybe you can ask them to lower the limits?

They put the caps on to help with the very problem you are all bitching about; provisioning a ton of resources and getting a big bill. It's very easy to raise the cap.

It can power a front end. It's like a micro container as a service.

Docker

Using a framework like server less or chalice makes it incredibly easy for an MVP