I have been covering spatial computing as an analyst since 2014, when I joined Moor Insights & Strategy, and even a year earlier, in 2013, as a journalist. One of the companies that has always interested me in the space is Amazon Web Services (AWS), which is the world’s largest provider of cloud services and technologies. I have long been curious about its role within the broader spatial computing ecosystem, especially considering how cloud-dependent the metaverse and spatial computing are. After all, Microsoft’s entire spatial computing effort, including the HoloLens project, exists primarily to drive greater utilization of its Azure cloud services, so it makes sense that Microsoft’s biggest competitor in cloud computing , Amazon, look to do the…