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doingmyting | 5 years ago

Amazon makes substantially more from AWS than its retail segment. Retail revenue is higher but revenue does not equal profit. For instance last quarter AWS revenue was 13% compares to retail but it contributed 52% of operating income.

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kolmogorov|5 years ago

Those are accounting tricks

lmm|5 years ago

Citation needed. It seems pretty common-sense that retail would be lower-margin than digital services.