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I thought it would be interesting to find out how and where Amazon is pushing the tech envelope, but it's a frustrating exercise. What I get when I search tends to be warped by Amazon's interest in helping other people do research. So I'm left wondering if Amazon is very secretive about their internal research, or if they most of their innovation is around new methods of shopping and distribution, or ...? Surely research must be happening in and around AWS, but darned if I can find it.
You brought up an interesting question. Amazon does spend a lot money in R&D to the level that it spent more than Intel and Google for the past four quarters.
In fact I believe this is how they manage to keep their profitability almost to zero. BTW I also tried a search on arxiv.org and ran into a similar problem. There may be papers from Amazon authors in the pile but they are completely swamped by references to Amazon from other researchers using Amazon as a tool.
