Amazon R&D spending is more than that of all companies and government of France
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navigatron@beehaw.org 9 months ago
From the HN comments, R&D includes the infrastructure / datacenter costs to support AWS.
Given the scale of AWS, even if only measured by how much of the internet breaks when us-east-1 goes down, I would say the numbers make sense.