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Re:What is Google doing with its open source teams? by vineyardmike on Saturday January 28, 2023 @02:47PM (#34560969)
> Even today, much of Amazon is not on AWS.

They’re the same CPUs they just use an internal API to provision and not AWS APIs. I’m pretty sure the internal APIs also just wrap ec2 et al at this point (for backwards compatibility)

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Re:What is Google doing with its open source teams? by scarface74 on Saturday January 28, 2023 @03:05PM (#34561197)
I guess I should disclose that I work at AWS. But it’s publicly well documented how the infrastructure of AWS came to be.

Much of the Amazon infrastructure predates AWS and was built on homegrown systems. A lot of wasn’t ported over.

If you want to see what it looks like to have an Amazon product made available to AWS and that wasn’t designed specifically for AWS, look no further than Amazon Connect. There were no publicly available APIS for years to automate anything. Every AWS native service is API first.

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