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Re:Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microso... by vosper on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @04:44PM (#21819231)
> Neither is AWS

This article lists some of the AWS services that now power Amazon.com since they moved away from Oracle. So, while it may not have been true in the past, it does now appear that AWS powers a significant portion of Amazon.com.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/migration-complete-amazons-...

Re:Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microso... by mulmen on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @05:06PM (#21819466)
Amazon using AWS today is entirely different from the origins of AWS or GCP or Azure being productizations of internal infrastructure.

AWS services have always been their own thing, they happen to be useful so today Amazon utilizes them just like anyone else. That doesn't mean the services started internally.

https://www.networkworld.com/article/2891297/the-myth-about-...

Re:Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microso... by Touche on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @12:18PM (#21827040)
I think you're being a bit too literal here. Did AWS merely fork the infrastructure that Amazon.com runs on and start selling it, no. But are you telling me that it wasn't built on the lessons learned of amazon.com and that it doesn't share some aspects of how amazon.com worked a the time (with improvements to the bad parts)? I don't know the answer and maybe it was a clean-room implementation but that seems unlikely to me.