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(no need to follow any writing format such as MLA or APA) addressing the following questions:
1. What are some of the advantages in having a longer time horizon? What are some of the challenges? What needs to happen to enable Amazon to continue to ‘think long term’? What could derail this approach?
2. Does Amazon buy most of its warehouse automation software from others or is most of the software written in-house? Why do you suppose this is the case?
3. Describe how Amazon Marketplace offers two-sided network effects. Besides network effects, what additional benefits does Amazon gain by allowing other retailers to sell potentially competing products on Amazon?
4. Both Amazon and Apple would like you to store books, music, and other media in their ‘cloud’. What critical key strategic advantage comes to a firm when consumers adopting one firm’s cloud vs. the other?
5. Which firms use AWS? What do they gain by using a cloud provider and what do they give up? How might Amazon or other cloud firms reduce concerns potential and existing clients might have?
6. Are network effects at work in cloud platforms? How so? What kinds of complementary products might make AWS seem more attractive than a new cloud computing effort?
7. Why did Amazon decide to get into cloud computing? This business is radically different from shipping books and other physical products, do you think Amazon should continue to keep AWS as part of Amazon.com, or should it spin the firm out as a separate company? What would be the advantages to either approach? Search online to see if you can find opinions that analysts or journalists may have regarding AWS’s growth prospects in Amazon or as a separate firm. (2.5 points)
Write in a word document and submit to canvas. Organize in the respective questions for easier grading and higher points.
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two-page
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(There is no need to adhere to any particular writing style, such as MLA or APA) answering the following questions:
1. What are some of the benefits of working with a longer time frame? What are a few of the difficulties? What must occur in order for Amazon to continue to “think long term”? What could go wrong with this strategy?
2. Is the majority of Amazon’s warehouse automation software purchased from third parties or built in-house? What makes you think this is the case?
3. Describe the two-sided network effects that Amazon Marketplace provides. What further advantages does Amazon receive by enabling other businesses to offer potentially competing products on Amazon, aside from network effects?
4. Both Amazon and Apple want you to keep your data on their servers.
