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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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