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Me as of yesterday:
We left AWS for Azure two years ago, so that doesn't count.
Me today:
I am currently studying what it would take to drop Amazon Prime. So far a combination of sites seems to do the trick. I first search Amazon for what I want, then I start searching elsewhere where to buy it from. My guess is that I'll be able to cancel it by the end of the year.
I spend five figures on Bezos owned products every year. Not anymore.
I cancelled WaPo yesterday, and Prime today, with a refund.
I canceled WaPo, but Prime will be a discussion. Maybe.
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.
I am trying to eliminate Amazon altogether.
Totally get that. Just trying to say that you don’t have to keep Prime while you figure it out.
AWS is roughly 70% of Amazon's profit. The retail side is inconsequential.
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.
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.
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
Oof. Is there any way for a layperson to avoid it or is it just ubiquitous with the internet?