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fatneckbeardz on Nov 22, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Amazon Alexa is on pace to lose $10B this year

without AWS Amazon would be losing money not making a profit. its been around the financial / wsb reddit and twitter lately.

mr_toad on Nov 22, 2022 [–]

It’s a low margin business, and Amazon have focused on growth over margins.

The popular perception that Amazon rakes in massive profits is some sort of folk wisdom.

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