A company that started as an e-commerce site and now leads the cloud market with AWS.
Beyond its e-commerce business, AWS holds the largest share of the cloud-infrastructure market and is a pillar of the company's profits. By revenue, the e-commerce business is far larger, but AWS generates the bulk of operating profit -- a structure where the high-margin cloud business effectively subsidizes the low-margin retail business.
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