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Re:Amazon EC2-Classic Is Retiring by simfree on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @07:55PM (#27991219)
Sounds like a good reason to integrate with Authorize.net or another vendor that provides platform agnostic APIs that let you pick your own payment vendor (at much lower cost than Amazon's payment offerings).
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Re:Amazon EC2-Classic Is Retiring by ComputerGuru on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @08:01PM (#27991260)
It was never our primary payment method, but we had higher conversion rates with it. We had Authorize.net at the time, then added PayPal PayFlow and Stripe. I actually authored a payment abstraction library that would try providers in order of priority and fall back gracefully, avoiding double charges and even abstracting over payment status, refunds, etc.
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Re:Amazon EC2-Classic Is Retiring by jsjohnst on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @08:20PM (#27991365)
> I actually authored a payment abstraction library that would try providers in order of priority

Were you storing PANs then?

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Re:Amazon EC2-Classic Is Retiring by ComputerGuru on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @08:41PM (#27991503)
No, the retry logic was in-tandem between the client and a separate server endpoint.
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