Re:Google Cloud Downtime Postmortem
by paulddraper on Thursday July 19, 2018 @05:11PM
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> but they don't pay Amazon to sell their product
They certainly do.
As with AWS, there are various services offered, each with their own pricing structure.
* Payment mechanism (Amazon Pay)
* E-commerce interface (Sell on Amazon)
* Services marketplace (Selling Services on Amazon)
* Advertising (Advertise on Amazon)
* Warehouse/logistics provider (Fulfillment by Amazon)
Amazon, eBay, or your own ecommerce website problems can cost exactly as much business as AWS, GCP, or your own data center problems.
I know businesses that depend on Amazon.com as a primary sales channel were affected, but they don't pay Amazon to sell their product (maybe Pro merchants are the exception). I think they owe us Prime members an outage report even more on that basis.
In any case, I think it would be a good idea for them to write an incident report, but don't think it's comparable.
edit: I give. Like I said, I think it's different than AWS/GCP outages, but I think your point is great and I think it's a good idea they pubish a report on it. Look forward to seeing it someday.