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Re:Prime Down: Amazon’s sale day turns into fail day by cabaalis on Monday July 16, 2018 @03:47PM (#17544446)
I'm a big fan of dogfooding. But given Amazon's ecommerce huge computing needs, maybe it would make sense to not burden the compute availability of your fledgling cloud offering with your ginormous system?
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Re:Prime Down: Amazon’s sale day turns into fail day by klodolph on Monday July 16, 2018 @04:00PM (#17544574)
If built well your compute offering can scale with the resources you give it. If you have Amazon’s commerce platform running on a pool of computers, the team running commerce can give those computers to EC2 in exchange for an equivalent amount of EC2 quota. In theory it’s a bookkeeping operation.

There are plenty of good reasons why you wouldn’t run Amazon’s commerce on EC2, but I don’t think cloud availability is one of them.

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Re:Prime Down: Amazon’s sale day turns into fail day by ryanianian on Monday July 16, 2018 @04:36PM (#17544852)
FWIW 100% of the Amazon retail website is run on EC2 (and iirc it's 100% on spot instances too). (There are of course lots of internal services that still use non-ec2 capacity but fewer and fewer every day.)
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Re:Prime Down: Amazon’s sale day turns into fail day by 15charlimitdumb on Monday July 16, 2018 @05:23PM (#17545263)
note though it is not 100% AWS, ex they use Akamai instead of cloudfront
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Re:Prime Down: Amazon’s sale day turns into fail day by discodave on Monday July 16, 2018 @05:02PM (#17545097)
I don't think the spot thing is accurate. Amazon retail EC2 capacity is more like reserved instances.
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