Today I Learned Amazon Makes 14 Cents On Every Lyft Ride

From poet and piano player (also Lightspeed [India], ex-A16Z)  Hemant Mohapatra‏:

So @lyft is paying $8m/mo to @AWS -- almost $100m/yr! Each ride costs $.14 in AWS rent. I keep hearing they could build their own DC & save. My early days at @Google cloud, heard the same from customers: "at scale, owning is cheaper". It wasn't - they all came around. Here's why:

— Hemant Mohapatra (@MohapatraHemant) March 4, 2019

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