By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/09/2026*More than 100%* of the cost of operating the fulfillment side of Amazon covered by the fees it extracts from its independent sellers (who *compete with Amazon* in many instances, and for whom delivery is a cost center, not a source of profit). 6/ 222030
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/09/2026Then there's AWS, Amazon's cloud business. This is another extraordinary success story: every company needs servers, and that's especially true of an e-commerce company like Amazon. 7/ 11615
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/09/2026By building *more* servers than it needs, Amazon transformed its own data infrastructure from a cost center into another profit center. 8/ 21688
