I could be wrong, but I don't think Amazon actually designs or manufactures anything under the AmazonBasics brand. It's like buying a "white box" PC from a company like MSI and reselling it under your own brand name.
They do have their "AmazonBasics" program [1] where they're selling their own "store brand" of things. I guess that's probably not their own manufacturing (they're likely just buying in bulk and branding it) but it might be.
I love Amazon to death. I have no idea what you mean by "Amazon version of something", but I just purchased an MS ergo keyboard from them a few weeks ago instead of going to best buy.
As far as I'm concerned there is no "Amazon version of something", there's simply an amazing service providing so much value that I'm more than happy to wait a few days to get it from Amazon than to buy it retail.
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