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Doesn't a large portion of Netflix's infrastructure run on top of Amazon Web Services? Why doesn't the article clarify that?

I think Amazon is not losing money at all. They're supplying a really big customer with resources and selling at retail as well.

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Amazon providing Netflix with infrastructure does not figure in. The estimate (which I agree is suspect) has to do with the cost of acquiring content rights. If Amazon is spending more money on content rights than they pull in from users consuming that content, then they're running their streaming service at a loss. Netflix running on their hardware doesn't factor in.

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