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Re:Amazon sells out of the NES Classic Edition in less than ... by rubyfan on Friday November 11, 2016 @10:50PM (#12936500)
There are over 2000 negative reviews on the Amazon page from people complaining that they were there at 5 and go nothing but errors (myself included).
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Re:Amazon sells out of the NES Classic Edition in less than ... by hartator on Friday November 11, 2016 @11:12PM (#12936545)
Amazon own website can't run properly on AWS?
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Re:Amazon sells out of the NES Classic Edition in less than ... by seansmccullough on Friday November 11, 2016 @11:18PM (#12936559)
Parts of it don't run on AWS.
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Re:Amazon sells out of the NES Classic Edition in less than ... by brazzledazzle on Saturday November 12, 2016 @02:22AM (#12937002)
I wouldn't have expected that. Any idea which parts and why?
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Re:Amazon sells out of the NES Classic Edition in less than ... by bfcapell on Saturday November 12, 2016 @04:45AM (#12937233)
"At the time I was at Amazon, working on the retail site, none of Amazon.com was running on AWS. I know, when AWS was announced, with great fanfare, they said "the services that power Amazon.com can now power your business!" or words to that effect. This was a flat out lie."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3102129

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Re:Amazon sells out of the NES Classic Edition in less than ... by brazzledazzle on Monday November 14, 2016 @06:48AM (#12949171)
I remember reading that but somehow forgot about it. It makes me wonder if the creation of AWS was an end run around devs and/or ops teams unwilling to evolve. Very political organizations seem to have such a hard time with big shifts in thinking.
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