Re:Amazon and the “profitless business model” fallacy (2013)
by HWR_14 on Friday December 24, 2021 @06:57PM
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> That would mean that, at the start, any service or VM etc. you started on AWS would only work during non-peak Amazon hours.
While that's true, at the time I read this "peak Amazon hours" were a few hours on cyber Monday. In fact, that's probably still true.
Re:Amazon and the “profitless business model” fallacy (2013)
by 8note on Friday December 24, 2021 @03:48PM
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I imagine peak involves scaling up the total number of instances, and the house of cards falls down without you growth.
Disclaimer: I work in non-aws amazon, and my imagination is my own.
I've heard this too, but I don't think it can possibly be true. That would mean that, at the start, any service or VM etc. you started on AWS would only work during non-peak Amazon hours. So your website or app would be down if the traffic to Amazon's website ramped up. I can't imagine many companies going for that offering. If that was the product that AWS originally offered I can't imagine it would have been successful.