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		mgh95 85 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OpenAI and Nvidia announce partnership to deploy 1... Amazon was gross margin profitable -- and significantly so -- the entire time. It just turns out they were a server farm subsidizing a gift shop.

rhetocj23 85 days ago [–]

Yeah this.

Ultimately the marketplace was just an investment that had embedded within it a real option for AWS. Magical really.

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