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by chadash 896 days ago
Amazon is unique. If you look at their revenue, the vast majority comes from E-Commerce. But if you look at their profits, the majority comes from AWS.

AWS is indisputably a software org, so it's clear that their senior leaders value software engineering. But I think that even Amazon's marketplace sees itself as a software org. From the early days, they always saw software as being a competitive advantage.

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Amazon is a partial monopoly so it depends on where you're working. Your team could be any of the 3 areas mentioned under the same umbrella.

Honestly a good manager will do more for your job than anything else.

I agree that AWS is a software org, I am interested in E-Commerce in this particular case. Thank you for response
You can definitely tell the difference in priorities for end users between Amazon.com and AWS too.