The Amazon tax: 50% of online-service spend goes to cloud
Messari Happy Hour Ep11 (Messari)
“50% of every dollar you and I spend on online services like Asana, like Netflix, like Notion goes to Amazon or Google. The Amazon tax — it’s an invisible tax that we all have, and guess who pays the bill.” — 00:20:16
Context: Citing a16z’s “The Cost of Cloud, a Trillion Dollar Paradox”; he adds at [00:21:00] that data centers shrank from ~8.4M in 2018 to ~7.1M while hyperscalers grew, because data centers lack cloud-like tooling.