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
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/09/2026Amazon's customers - many of whom are *also* its competitors - pay Amazon so much to rent space on its servers that Amazon gets its own (prodigious) computing *for free*, and realizes a profit on top of that. 9/ 119022
dotwaffle @matthew.walster.org · 05/09/2026And where storing 1GB of data for about a year on their service (S3) costs less than the fee they charge for the literal <0.1s it takes to send it from that service to the office down the street or to a competitor. 000
