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sir pball

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9. It's a nice sentiment, but it's dead wrong that Amazon "needs you to buy from them."

Reply to bmichaelh (Original post)

Sat Oct 11, 2025, 07:04 AM

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Amazon makes roughly a quarter of their profit from their retail division.

The vast majority of their money comes from Web Services, which is virtually impossible to avoid; over half of the top 50,000 websites use AWS…DU included. They've been aptly described as "a cloud giant with a gift shop."

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