This, except for the antitrust part. Breaking it up would have little effect because it’s already a loosely coupled set of division-level APIs. Each division has external customers and other AMZN divisions as customers. It’s already broken apart.https://twitter.com/Austen/status/1038497062608728064 …
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Was reading the book "Extreme Ownership" and there was an anecdote about a company where one division was forced to be a consumer of another's services (captively). I feel like this wouldn't happen at Amazon, they'd let each div do what it wanted and compete for others' biz
Amazon does force its divisions to buy from each other, but solves the creeping inefficiency problem by opening up those services to outside customers.https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/14/why-amazon-is-eating-the-world/ …