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[politelemon]

1 million seats though? Who are they buying so many licenses for? Surely Amazon only has thousands of employees and even with turnover rates it wouldn't reach 1 million. Am I misunderstanding seats

[ygjb → politelemon]

https://www.statista.com/statistics/234488/number-of-amazon-...

[PorterBHall → politelemon]

I’m guessing some of those seats are resold by Amazon as virtual machines on AWS.

[hotpotamus → politelemon]

The driving/deliveries are not yet performed by robots.

[PrayagBhakar → politelemon]

Alternative link that didn’t take me to a paywall :: https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/amzn/employees/

But yea Amazon has a lot of employees. Idk what the tech/business/distribution center split is but I’m sure everyone is given at least a work email.