Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again

Re:Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again by reaperducer on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @12:38PM (#29569090)

AWS wouldn't monitor itself from a competitor, of course

Why not? The big tech companies use each other all the time.

For example, set up a new firewall on macOS and you can see how many times Apple pulls data from Amazon or Azure or other competitors' APIs and services.

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Re:Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again by jethro_tell on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @01:45PM (#29570009)

Apple is not a competitor to AWS or Azure in any way. They offer not infrastructure/platform as a service that I am aware of.

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Re:Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again by reaperducer on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @04:03PM (#29571599)

Apple and Amazon are competitors. Apple and Microsoft competitors.

The postulation was that Apple and Amazon weren't competitors. Not that they're not competitors in a specific niche.

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Re:Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again by jethro_tell on Thursday December 16, 2021 @12:12AM (#29575176)

But the idea that Amazon or Microsoft or Google would host anything at apple is pretty out there.

Apple uses their competitor's services because they can't build their own cloud and host their own shit. The big boys don't use competitors for services they are capable of building themselves.

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Re:Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again by QuinnyPig on Thursday December 16, 2021 @11:10AM (#29579671)

And yet video.nest.com (Google) resolves to an Amazon load balancer.

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