People on the internet tend to ignore the value of a quality item, and of one-day Prime shipping.
And even within Amazon, I'll buy something marked "sold and shipped by Amazon" before I'll be a similar product from "ReallyGoodOverSeasNumberOneCo."
And I've had incredible luck with the Amazon Basics line of goods. So far, just batteries and headphones and other miscellany, but the quality is far superior to any of the Eastern drop-shippers.
Then again, it was AT&T that ran commercials in the 80's saying "You get what you pay for" and "Be the best and you'll never go out of business."
AT&T is now out of business, with its name bought by Southwestern Bell after its death in order to cash in on the brand.
I'll warn you right now that even if you buy something "sold and shipped by Amazon" you can get one of the items sold by 3rd party as new. Amazon dumps them all in the same box. I believe they call it "co-mingling". You may still get junk/counterfeit for all your work. The only things actually protected properly are direct Amazon brands.
So you are already fully deceived by "sold and shipped by Amazon". It may not be.
cost not price. You be the lowest price and have higher costs for a while, but eventually something has to change.
My assumption is the Cloud market is much smaller than the everything market. If the cloud market becomes mature and profits shrink, their growth stalls.
If they divert too much cloud money to big physical infrastructure then are they able to stay ahead of the feature curve against competitors?
Then again as both a customer and vendor of cloud maybe their ability to determine new use cases and customer needs is more in-tune.
But Amazon only competes with Google and Microsoft. Both have high margins in their non-cloud products, and are probably not interested in reducing those margins.
