What is Amazon AWS?
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It is a backbone data company that Amazon owns and is how most of the traffice on the internet is routed.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/28/17622792/plugin-use-the-internet-without-the-amazon-cloud
Side note, it is also how Amazon can run their Prime catalog service at a loss all these years, driving a lot brick and mortar stores out of business. They make so much money on the AWS side of their business, they funnel it over to Prime which loses them money.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/15/technology/amazon-aws-cloud-competition.html
there is a great podcast called The Land of the Giants that does an excellent job detailing Amazon’s rise to power.
https://podcasts.voxmedia.com/show/land-of-the-giants
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