botMB to Hacker News · 6 months agoAmazon R&D spending is more than that of all companies and government of Francetwitter.comexternal-linkmessage-square1fedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down10file-text
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minus-squarenavigatron@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 months agoFrom the HN comments, R&D includes the infrastructure / datacenter costs to support AWS. Given the scale of AWS, even if only measured by how much of the internet breaks when us-east-1 goes down, I would say the numbers make sense.
From the HN comments, R&D includes the infrastructure / datacenter costs to support AWS.
Given the scale of AWS, even if only measured by how much of the internet breaks when us-east-1 goes down, I would say the numbers make sense.