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Originally Posted by Uncle Robin
An important fact that I'm surprised isn't acknowledged more often in discussion here. AWS is easily Amazon's biggest cash cow, everything else is a sideline, whose profitability or lack thereof is largely irrelevant, thanks to how much AWS brings in.
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It's pretty obvious that most of you guys aren't in IT. Servers and data centers cost money. Lots of money. The company I use to work for was spend in excess of $1 M a month on AWS costs, and that was without using it for production.
AWS comes from the infrastructure that Amazon uses. Amazon does not run it's operation on the same machines that it sells to other companies as part of AWS. Yes, I have done work in the AWS infrastructural.