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Re:Amazon packages pile up after AWS outage spawns delivery ... by staticassertion on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @10:43PM (#29481037)
A lot of AWS is very old and it's very hard to go back and make everything nice and reliable without breaking things when you have a shitload of customers 24/7 using your services.

So yes, in theory much of AWS's services are probably very reliable and distributed across AZs and regions, but in practice there's likely a whole bunch of debt where one thing gets fucked up and it cascades.

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Re:Amazon packages pile up after AWS outage spawns delivery ... by stormbeard on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @11:52PM (#29481392)
As an AWS employee, you’re under too much artificial deadline pressure to address technical debt like this… let alone engineer a service properly in the first place.
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Re:Amazon packages pile up after AWS outage spawns delivery ... by datavirtue on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @11:25AM (#29486711)
As a corporate employee, you’re under too much artificial deadline pressure to address technical debt like this… let alone engineer a service properly in the first place.
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Re:Amazon packages pile up after AWS outage spawns delivery ... by 6510 on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @11:10PM (#29481175)
A profitable "accident".
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