@eatstoomuchjam huge isn't even required for most hosting needs

Isn't AWS something that can be easily copied by 10000 companies, kind of like memecoins ??

Amazon would start implementing the idea in 2017 as a greater push to combat counterfeit goods. In short, the commerce titan would reach out to vendors and compel them to prove they had the brand's permission to sell its products. A source told Bloomberg that Nike will get this treatment first, allowing the brand to control who can and can't sell its merchandise.

Btw Alibaba is going same way. Idea to fight "counterfeit goods" is only small part here.
Main goals is total price control, fight with gray imports, full replacement of smaller dealers to official Nike/Amazon items.

@alcomposer

They are rising fast. Big other guys also.

According to a 2017 academic study, Vanguard, BlackRock, and State Street are the largest combined shareholder of 40 percent of all publicly listed companies in the US, accounting for a market capitalization of $17 trillion, roughly equal to the total GDP of the United States.

Stocks are doing very good

Poor small guys

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2017.

Operating cash flow increased 53% to $17.6 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $11.6 billion for the trailing twelve months ended March 31, 2016. Free cash flow increased to $10.2 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $6.7 billion for the trailing twelve months ended March 31, 2016. Free cash flow less lease principal repayments increased to $6.2 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $3.8 billion for the trailing twelve months ended March 31, 2016. Free cash flow less finance lease principal repayments and assets acquired under capital leases increased to $3.3 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $1.9 billion for the trailing twelve months ended March 31, 2016.

Net sales increased 23% to $35.7 billion in the first quarter, compared with $29.1 billion in first quarter 2016. Excluding the $492 million unfavorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter, net sales increased 24% compared with first quarter 2016.

Amazon has begun shipping products from Chinese merchant partners to its U.S. warehouses via its own ocean freighters.

Wow, they subsidize everything! Are they really making enough $$ off of AWS services to cover all these market-share gobbling moves?

Theie big investors subsidize everything.
They do it not as present, but because they know capitalism laws.
Amazon is chewing small and medium businesses in US and around by hundreds and thousands. They just are growing up Godzilla, and as it'll grow up enough, price and delivery policies will change overnight.

If they get hit with an anti-trust suit in the next 2-3 years (Trump seems willing), investors are gonna lose their shirts!

Yeah, yeah, more probably they will meet aliens who will stop em.

Typically, Amazon recovers only about 55% of the amount it spends on shipping, a number that has drawn new scrutiny after the company’s third-quarter earnings significantly missed expectations. As it expands its Prime service and other recent offerings, Amazon's net shipping costs—the difference between what it pays for shipping and the amount customers pay in shipping fees and Prime memberships—reached nearly $1.75 billion in the third quarter, its highest quarterly total ever outside of the peak holiday season

That free shipping for customers is an unsustainable trend fueled by giant companies like Amazon that aren’t accountable for profitability to investors in a meaningful way. "Amazon is pulling everyone into the gutter to play that [free shipping] game," Schwartz explained in a telephone conversation. "Amazon to me is the anchor that forces the industry to free shipping because Amazon isn’t held accountable to be profitable. This pulls all the other retailers into the same gutter, yet these other retailers are held accountable to be profitable—even if they’re not held to the same metrics that Amazon is held to.

https://www.fastcompany.com/3061686/free-shipping-is-a-lie

The online retail giant said Thursday that opening new warehouses and shipping items with shorter delivery times caused its costs to soar in the third quarter. The company predicts heavy investments will continue through the rest of the year. Amazon opened 23 warehouses world-wide to fill orders since July, after opening just three in the first half of the year.

Well, they post some profit, but just to look good.

Market value. Just LOL.

Amazon Is Giving Its Workers Treehouses.

No, no, don't get me wrong. Not all workers, only management working in main offices. Others still will be working without breaks in sweatshop warehouses.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/11/technology/forget-beanbag-chairs-amazon-is-giving-its-workers-treehouses.html