[gondaloof]

Tongue in cheek, but

> Amazon Web Services, Inc. is a subsidiary of Amazon

So it’s technically another company.

Another comment seems to confirm this akshually comment ^_^’

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35812230

[dbish]

It’s still all Amazon, the single publicly traded company. Legal shenanigans/optimizations don’t change that. The other commenter was referring to AWS the org over Amazon Retail or Devices (other orgs).

[yazaddaruvala]

Context: I worked at Amazon Retail for 10 years.

Amazon Retail and AWS are the same legal entity for stocks, but other than that they might as well be separate companies.

Retail uses AWS with all the same APIs and quirks as any other company. The only thing different is the negotiation on price (which many large companies also do).

Meanwhile, AWS is apathetic towards feature requests from Retail, and especially operational support for Retail.

In many ways Retail would be better off if it was a separate company and could threaten AWS with a multi-cloud diversification play.