> AWS is already a large and fast growing business.
But isn't AWS the same as Amazon, just instead of selling a new vacuum, its selling cloud compute? Its still e-commerce, just rebranded as "cloud provider."
- Billing: One bills you before shipping, the other bills at the end of the month.
- Cart: One lets you add items to a cart, the other lets you use products via API.
- Delivery: One requires warehouses all over the world, the other requires data centers all over the world. Only warehouses and data centers are so specialized that they aren't interchangeable.
- 3rd parties: One is a platform for creating online storefronts where 3rd parties can sell. The other is a platform that runs any code you want.
- One has a mass market audience of consumers, the other has a highly specialized market of developers.
Hmm, on second thought, maybe they are not the same business.