capex

Amazon is burying all aws' capex in their general capex.

The slim overall profit is different than the operating profit, as that article explains when talking about Amazon's capex.

However, if you have significant server CapEx and OpEx it can totally be worth it to reduce your required server footprint.

We're somewhat working around it with application layer stuff, but are moving off that switch and vendor as fast as capex allows.

Medical supplies might be another story, especially as it's capex intensive and low headcount.

For 4TB of space on a home server, your opex costs are identical ($160/yr) and your capex costs are only $120 higher.

A fascinating post from Benedict Evans looks at Amazon's capex/sales ratio from 2009 and looks at what free cash flow would have been had Amazon preserved that ratio through 2014 instead of incurring massive capex.

Because the capex on a solar panel starts at around $200.

If you want to talk about business models but you're not going to talk about bandwidth costs and user growth and capex, you're not being serious.

Collapsing prices make it hard to raise funds for capex.

Assume all this is for free, both capex and opex.

If one government starts subsidizing a high capex industry, others have to follow suit or throw up trade barriers or their industries will drop off a cliff.