Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microsoft in Cloud

Re:Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microso... by Touche on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @06:31PM (#21820199)

I'm confused because on the one hand you say that their needs are very different and then on the other hand you say that they are using AWS. Another commenter also pointed out that they are using AWS.

I think the only needs that are likely different are scale, so bigger instances, and the fact that they have a massive legacy infrastructure that can't be easily migrated off of. So that's pretty much what I would expect; Amazon.com does use AWS for new stuff but is still operating a lot of legacy as well.

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Re:Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microso... by dodobirdlord on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @02:36AM (#21822700)

Amazon uses AWS for some new stuff. New AWS services high up in the stack like AI services run mostly on AWS. Most infra-AWS services run on foundational AWS services like EC2 and S3. Foundational AWS services (EC2, S3, DynamoDB, etc.) don't run on AWS for obvious chicken-and-egg reasons. For all of the things that are done by latecomer AWS services you can count on there being an unrelated internal tool, since clearly Amazon was doing those things before they launched those services.

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Re:Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microso... by mulmen on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @11:28PM (#21821800)

Amazon builds internal services on top of AWS. The services AWS sells are not Amazon internal services.

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