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Re:Trump's opposition to H-1B visas has experts concerned
on Sunday November 13, 2016 @04:27AM (#12942554)
Amazon's problem is completely different. The management disgraced the company and no self respecting American wants to work there. Some of their tech departments are 70% Indian. They want to hire people in American, but, surprise, America is full of those damn Americans, none of whom want to work there.
Re:Ask HN: Why pay 10x the on-demand rate for spot instances on EC2?
on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @12:19AM (#12732059)
This happens because Amazon charges whatever people bid. Internal Amazon teams, particularly in India, use spot instances and have the type of people who are so lazy they use the max of all bid prices for all instance types. That's in additional to all the other stuff they do like exposing internal tools to the internet because they can't be bothered to connect to the VPN or starting huge clusters on a different region of another team's AWS account so no one will find it. Amazon doesn't care because it's internal cost and a million dollars to Amazon is like a thousand to everyone else.