Re:Amazon, a Friendly Giant as Long as It’s Fed
by vidarh on Sunday July 13, 2014 @04:42PM
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It would be terrifying if AWS was just Amazon's excess capacity, as then one might want to ask what would happen when Amazon suddenly needed the capacity... Apart from for spot instances, a lot of people have never seemed to get that Amazon needs to over-provision massively because of how the product works, and that their customers still need to cover the cost of all that over capacity.
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Re:Amazon, a Friendly Giant as Long as It’s Fed
by mattmcknight on Thursday July 17, 2014 @05:16PM
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No one said it was "just" Amazon's excess capacity. However, they do use it...so it is way of not paying for their excess capacity, just like everyone else's use is.