[m463]

I don't know how to reconcile this with my view of amazon.

"the customer" to amazon is not only the customer buying products, but the "other customer" paying for search results. The interests of the two are in opposite directions. I wonder if they have some sort of laffer curve.

[photochemsyn]

This is more an AWS thing, I imagine, where the business is providing the client with cloud computing resources in a secure and efficient manner. That at least seems to be a straightforward goal (although I wonder about how their billing really works under the hood, I imagine there are ways to push customers into more expensive tiers than they really need).

Amazon, the warehouse & shipping outfit, is riven with conflicting interests and is probably something of a nightmare to work as a dev at because of that. Current legislation exposes this:

> "The bill, co-sponsored by Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) would stop sites including Amazon and Google from giving their own products a leg up in search results. (NYPost Jun 2022)"

Also, consider the people responsible for Amazon's "Time on Task" warehouse worker monitoring system... kind of sadistic at best.