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Re:Google Cloud Downtime Postmortem by throwaway5752 on Thursday July 19, 2018 @05:05PM (#17570254)
It may come as a surprise, but I have used Amazon. Both on a professional and personal basis! (I say this tongue in cheek).

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.

Re:Google Cloud Downtime Postmortem by paulddraper on Thursday July 19, 2018 @05:11PM (#17570312)
> 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.

https://services.amazon.com/