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There are over 40,000 plants inside the Amazon Spheres, three quarters of which can run containers in some form or another.

The first plant in the Amazon Spheres was an Australian Tree Fern from the UW Botany greenhouse.

At any company but Amazon it would have been named "the OW Botany Greenhouse Tree Fern" instead, but their names are always peculiar.

There's a banana stand nearby where they give away free bananas to anyone who wants one. Get into the Spheres and you can upgrade to the world's most exotic salad bar.

I kid, I kid! To prevent people from grazing instead of working, Amazon has stocked the Spheres with 3 plants that are poisonous, and 2 more that are carnivorous. You don't want to stray from the pathway!

The climate indoors is, and I am not making this up, designed to emulate a cloud forest. Even @awscloud isn't immune to the siren song of a good pun.

No, not @forrestbrazeal; that's a Cloud Forrest.

While the main feature is obviously the botany, there are occasionally interesting animals within the Spheres. Like a @Quinnypig!

They apparently grow something inside the Spheres that relaxes inhibitions, because the Amazon Namers just cut the hell *LOOSE* in there. Here's a sign leading to one of the cafes:

It's the kind of thing that only works once because your knees will not survive for a second attempt, but quite literally dropping in on someone's 1:1 meeting from 20 feet up is unquestionably the best example of "Bias For Action" that the company has ever or will ever see.

It's a nice escape if you get the opportunity. It lets you forget about the computers for a while and just bask in the natural beauty of plants and--oh dammit AWS!