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Re:FTC Brings First Case Challenging Fake Paid Reviews on an... by derefr on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @07:00PM (#19259628)
Mostly because the dozen-or-so data-analytics services that AWS provides are all architecturally of the "scratching-your-own-novel-itch" shape rather than the "best-practices, well-known-standard" or "bug-for-bug-clone-of-the-thing-some-other-cloud-vendor-is-doing" shape. Amazon built DynamoDB, acquired Redshift, etc. to use them.
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Re:FTC Brings First Case Challenging Fake Paid Reviews on an... by vonmoltke on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @08:44AM (#19263148)
None of that tells me they have identified the correct metrics to collect in order to identify the extent of the problem, to identify the specific listings or reviews that are fraudulent, or to use in a system to suppress the fraud. They certainly have the infrastructure to do it, but that is the (relatively) easy part.
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