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Don’t Cancel The Washington Post. Cancel Amazon Prime. (www.theatlantic.com)

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[–] proudblond@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

You can always shop on Amazon without prime. It just takes a couple extra days to get stuff to you and you have to buy a certain dollar amount at once to get free shipping. We dropped prime months ago but still occasionally make an Amazon purchase.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I am trying to eliminate Amazon altogether.

[–] proudblond@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Totally get that. Just trying to say that you don’t have to keep Prime while you figure it out.

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 8 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

AWS is roughly 70% of Amazon's profit. The retail side is inconsequential.

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yet I’d say Amazon’s retail operation has had the far greater impact on the market. That’s the reason Lina Khan launched the antitrust lawsuit against Amazon. She wrote a detailed paper on how Amazon uses algorithmic pricing to crush the competition.

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

That's like saying the tip of the iceberg is the most dangerous section.

Do you know how much AWS touches? 33% of the Cloud market. That's about 1.5 x Azure and triple Google Cloud

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, our AWS yearly spend was high eight figures if you count the clients we supported on the platform. The software update has included a migration to Azure with Oracle Exadata which has now pushed that spend to nine figures. AWS fell asleep at the wheel, IMHO.

Cloud spending is massive.

[–] proudblond@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Oof. Is there any way for a layperson to avoid it or is it just ubiquitous with the internet?