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Originally Posted by Uncle Robin
I didn't say Amazon ran its own operations on AWS. I said that it made so much money from AWS that the profitability of its other ventures was largely irrelevant. That is a matter of public record
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They probably tap AWS for some added capacity come holidays and Prime Day but their business is stable enough to run on its own data centers for everything else.
The main connection is that tbe first AWS customers were using excess Amazon capacity and tbe first AWS data centers used tech developed For Amazon inhouse use. Both things have changed.
By now (probably since they starting publicly separating AWS income) the two operations have strongly diverged. AWS still does basic infrastructure cloud business but they've evolved way past that. Aws is moving into IP territory for businesses Amazon doesn't play in and software they don't use, and even designing its own CPUs and GPUs and AI chips.
Daddy Bezos' baby is growing up fast.
