[AtlasBarfed]

Construction is a one time cost. It infrastructure is in constant use.

It's like accounting and finance. Yeah a lot of companies use tax firms, but they all have finance and accounting in-house.

[jabradoodle]

I don't think that's the important distinction, lots of ongoing costs are outsourced.

Amazon may have their own shipping fleet, most retailers of smaller scale pay someone else to do it for profit.