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cmiles8today at 5:14 PM0 repliesview on HN

Amazon in a logistics and infrastructure company. It tries to be a lot more than that but isn’t very competitive outside the core skills.

Logistics = Getting stuff to your door super fast… Amazing, nobody is better.

Other stuff = An app and website that doesn’t suck and lets you find what you want amidst a sea of junk. Not great here.

Infrastructure = AWS core services which are quite good.

Other stuff = Nearly everything AWS tries to do on top of base commodity infrastructure, which is a hot mess.

Other stuff = Alexa, which is a has-been also-ran now that’s struggling to compete in the GenAI era. Rando also-ran businesses like Amazon Music. Various sports things that seem to be more Andy Jassy’s pet projects than anything. Physical retail with some keeping the lights on via Whole Foods but nearly everything else here has been shut down as a failure.