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AWS Q1: 4.1 billion net revenue.

Rest of Amazon Q1: 4.7 billion net revenue.

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That is net income (or profit) not revenue.

And that's why the CEO of AWS is now the CEO of Amazon. :)

Your numbers are too low. The actual revenue for Amazon is $100B+. How come you are reporting net revenue so low?

i should have used "net income" rather than "net revenue".

These should be separate companies.

Why? Amazon relies on AWS and Amazon's in-the-trenches experience no doubt helps shape AWS.

Ebay and Paypal split, but Paypal was worth a lot more than Ebay at the time and now it is worth ~10x as much.

The sheer scale seems really similar to the vertical integration of companies like Standard Oil. That alone doesn't necessarily mean that they're problematic, but it sure does suggest that we give them a closer look. If their scale allows them to be anti-consumer/anti-trade then that's bad.

Are they being anti-consumer/anti-trade tho?

If their scale allows it then you may wish to look closer, but their scale also allows them to offer unprecedented value to customers, which is generally the highest value for commerce in the first place.

Let's not destroy a good thing just because we can imagine it having some consequences.

Neither part has anywhere near monopoly power in respective markets: AWS ~32% of cloud, Amazon has ~37% of ecommerce. There's an incredible amount of other options for everything Amazon does.

Vertical integration is not a matter of market share -- that's horizontal integration.

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