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0 pointsbenwilber09y ago0 comments

Notice how Amazon.com itself is unaffected. They're a lot smarter than us.

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yichi9y ago· 2 in thread

I do recall reading somewhere that Amazon.com isn't actually hosted or fully leveraging on the AWS platform, mostly due to the political struggle between the AWS and the merchant department.

Raphmedia9y ago

Sales Department: "We require 100% uptime! Can you do that?"

AWS Department: "Wellll, if we don't change the status to red, it's as if we were up all the time!"

p0rkbelly9y ago

There are public talks on Youtube from Amazon.com titled "Drinking our own Champagne" where they say the opposite.

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officelineback9y ago

Browsing works but some functionality is broken; for example you can't view your order history.

bpicolo9y ago

The ability is there for any company to take advantage of multiple regions. Takes time and money, but it's doable.

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