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Re:Amazon Web Services revenue rises 81% year over year by lostcolony on Thursday July 23, 2015 @08:07PM (#9939290)
Don't forget that AWS came out of Amazon's need for infrastructure. Amazon is dogfooding with AWS, and that's one of the reasons AWS remains in the lead when it comes to cloud compute platforms. They keep launching new, useful services, that come out of real business use cases.
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Re:Amazon Web Services revenue rises 81% year over year by jonjenk on Thursday July 23, 2015 @08:25PM (#9939350)
Former Amazon person here.

This is totally wrong. Amazon retail has been running on AWS for years.

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Re:Amazon Web Services revenue rises 81% year over year by themckman on Friday July 24, 2015 @03:46AM (#9940612)
I'm curious, does it run on AWS in the sense that when I launch an instance I might be collocated on the same physical machine as an instance doing work for amazon.com or do they have a separate deployment of the AWS stack in a dedicated part of the datacenter?
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Re:Amazon Web Services revenue rises 81% year over year by currysausage on Thursday July 23, 2015 @09:32PM (#9939604)
Maybe he confused it with Amazon retail rather recently switching from Akamai to CloudFront for static assets.
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