Thread: Amazon post the largest quarterly loss in 14 years
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Old 10-27-2014, 09:19 PM   #53
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Originally Posted by eschwartz View Post
What makes you think AWS loses money?

Not even taking into consideration the reasonable idea that they need the servers for their OWN business whether they rent it out to others or not... they have the infrastructure anyway.
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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg View Post
I got that impression from an article I read earlier this month, but I can't recall where it was published, and it could easily be wrong.
A big chunk of Netflix streaming is served by AWS. Do you believe Amazon is subsidizing Netflix? Do you believe Netflix would pay more for bandwidth than comparable AWS customers?
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