Prime Down: Amazon’s sale day turns into fail day

Re:Prime Down: Amazon’s sale day turns into fail day by xkjkls on Monday July 16, 2018 @06:45PM (#17545824)

That was quickly adjusted. I think like 3 years ago, Amazon publicly was saying that every day to AWS they were adding the same amount of computing power that was used to run Amazon.com when it was a $10 billion business. AWS is massively greater in scale than Amazon.com at this point.

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Re:Prime Down: Amazon’s sale day turns into fail day by ec109685 on Monday July 16, 2018 @10:50PM (#17546923)

Scaling services for many independent businesses is somewhat of a different challenge than “vertically” scaling for one large one like amazon.com.

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Re:Prime Down: Amazon’s sale day turns into fail day by chronid on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @04:18AM (#17548145)

I cannot confirm or deny that (since my memories are sorta fuzzy), but the real problem was not EC2 capacity. Many other AWS services were involved. :)

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