[crazygringo]

The exact price doesn't matter. The point is, it's wrong to conflate profits with income. You need to subtract costs before you can declare that Amazon "makes" a particular amount of money.

You are of course correct that this gives them revenue, my point is that the article is falsely framing this entirely as profit.

[akerl_]

The costs were already paid. AWS bought that IP space over the past decade. On their financials for 2024, the cost of the IP space they already held is zero.