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		dchest on April 30, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft Makes $300M Investment In Barnes-Noble E... Just like Amazon sells the unused capacity of the servers running their own stores This isn't true. http://www.quora.com/Amazon/How-and-why-did-Amazon-get-into-... "The excess capacity story is a myth. It was never a matter of selling excess capacity, actually within 2 months after launch AWS would have already burned through the excess Amazon.com capacity. Amazon Web Services was always considered a business by itself, with the expectation that it could even grow as big as the Amazon.com retail operation."

dkrich on April 30, 2012 [–]

If that's true, then it is even better for Microsoft because Amazon would bring no competitive advantages to the fight that they could not replicate.

Not sure why anybody would view that as a plus.

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