Why Netflix Loves Amazon

Netflix and Amazon.com are at each other's throats in the battle over the emerging online video market. But there's another area where the two companies couldn't be closer: the cloud. Fool contributor Demitrios Kalogeropoulos discusses this two-sided relationship in the video below, and points to another company for investors to watch for in the cloud services sector.

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