Amazon's FAST service seemed redundant after Amazon launched the Prime Video ad tier in January. With the subscription tier making money from subscription fees and ads shown on Prime Video with ads, it made little sense for Amazon to continue with Freevee, which only has the latter revenue stream.

Amazon is consolidating its video content and putting it in one place to keep things simple, according to the company.

Freevee, Amazon’s free ad-supported streaming service, is being shut down.