Economics

The Monopoly in Plain Sight

AWS — a vertical Amazon developed to handle internal surge demand on computing power — quarterly revenue last quarter was $4.5 billion.

Dispatch Economics 1 min read Brendan Hart

Amazon-AWS is becoming a monopoly

All of this news comes as part of AWS re:Invent, the cloud provider’s massive conference for customers in Las Vegas, Nevada. Earlier this week, the company announced a web-based editor for augmented and virtual reality applications, new bare metal compute instances, and grants for machine learning research.


I believe Amazon will be a trillion dollar market cap company.

As part of a sprawling mothership, look at Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) quarterly revenue growth below. AWS — a vertical Amazon developed to handle internal surge demand on computing power — quarterly revenue last quarter was $4.5 billion.

Or more than twice that of Uber, a company valued at $68 billion.

If you want to see the future of physical-digital scale, look to Amazon.

Brendan Hart

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Brendan Hart

Brendan Hart is an economist, entrepreneur, and executive advisor with two decades of experience building organizations and leading transformation across technology, defense, human capital, and government. USMC. Dartmouth. UVA-Darden.