Amazon’s hardware-as-a-service
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The thing I admire the most about Amazon’s business model is the way they sell their core competencies to other companies. The internet allows humans to make something that is (almost) infinitely replicable and available to everyone, and Amazon has taken advantage of that fact to change the economics of multiple industries. This wasn’t possible in the same way before the internet. You couldn’t rent out capacity in your steel mill and continue to use your steel mill for your own work at the same time. Any capacity you lent to someone else took away from what you could produce. On the internet, Amazon can rent out any of their features to other companies who could benefit from it.