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Re:Summary of June 29 AWS Service Event in US-East by bifrost on Tuesday July 03, 2012 @03:20PM (#4195724)
"What I don't like is that they make repeated promises about AZes and features which are repeatedly shown to be untrue."

Thats pretty much SOP in the hosting business, nobody really knows whats going to happen because nobody really knows how to test. Most developers can/do not understand what ops failures are like, and therefore most testing is only superficial.

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Re:Summary of June 29 AWS Service Event in US-East by rdl on Tuesday July 03, 2012 @11:40PM (#4197472)
Right, but I think we've established Amazon is actually a software company which happens to run a retail business and contract for some datacenters. Same way Google is either a supercomputer company or an advertising company which uses search to get users cheaply.
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