Amazon expands its air cargo fleet

Here&#x27;s a scenario that gives me pause: you as a company goes all in to re-engineer your critical apps to use AWS as efficiently as possible. Your apps are now no longer portable away from AWS without a lot of time and work.<p>Then Amazon enters your business space in direct competition to you. Through your business with AWS you are now funding a large, fierce, and direct competitor.<p>Anyone else think of this, or am I just being paranoid?

Increased use of airplanes is one factor in why US greenhouse gas emissions grew last year after years of decline: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vox.com&#x2F;energy-and-environment&#x2F;2019&#x2F;1&#x2F;11&#x2F;18177118&#x2F;airlines-climate-change-emissions-travel" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vox.com&#x2F;energy-and-environment&#x2F;2019&#x2F;1&#x2F;11&#x2F;1817711...</a>

I wonder if Amazon will offer any up any spare freight capacity on their planes? After all if they&#x27;re not using they can always sell that capacity.

Since they own the planes can they move stock around rather than packaged parcels, doing the boxing at the remote end?<p>If they could do this then they could pack so much more stuff on the planes than a commercial parcels company could.

I am scared at the scale that a single company can have nowadays. This is astounding!

I&#x27;m surprised they&#x27;re pushing this out so fast considering one of their planes crashed outside of Houston fairly recently.

Techies who dont have Prime and dont buy something every week, please raise your hands.<p>Five hours later: still waiting for first hand.

drove down from Palo Alto to San Diego up to LA yesterday and I passed so many amazon 18 wheelers. they were by far the most prevelent of a single &quot;trucking company&quot; that I saw (there were a handful of others that I saw more than one truck of, but must have seen at minimum 5-10 amazon trucks)

Omega Co is expanding.

Bet they could get a great deal on lightly used 737-MAX planes available from these sellers. (insert Amazon Marketplace link :-))