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raw_anon_1111yesterday at 11:34 AM0 repliesview on HN

Amazon doesn’t for the most part deliver shopping on top of AWS.

Amazon runs two sets of infrastructure “CDO” and “AWS”. It’s a myth that Amazon used excess capacity to start AWS. AWS was always built out as separate infrastructure outside of AWS.

Some Amazon services do run on AWS. But when Amazon runs workloads on AWS, for internal accounting, they are considered a customer.

Source: former employee at AWS