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Exactly. Maybe they’ll pull away a box of O-rings from Grainger but I’d never trust Amazon with supplying mission critical parts to spec. Last thing I’d want is

Exactly. Maybe they’ll pull away a box of O-rings from Grainger but I’d never trust Amazon with supplying mission critical parts to spec. Last thing I’d want is all my bolts sheering because they corroded from a lack of zinc plating.

tbihl 8y ago
You're being ironic, right? Amazon o-rings are a terrifying idea.
- jrockway 8y ago
  No need to worry... name one time a faulty O-ring has ever caused anything bad to happen. Oh, that one.
  - wang_li 8y ago
    The o-ring was fine. It was the failure to launch from a temperature controlled environment that was the problem.
lixtra 8y ago
> Amazon with supplying mission critical parts to spec I thought AWS is fairly successful also for HN users.
- jrockway 8y ago
  Unless AWS is now randomly assigning third-party-operated machines to your jobs, Amazon's inventory problems have nothing to do with AWS.
- insulanus 8y ago
  They are talking about Amazon's retail dry goods / physical object reseller business, not their cloud computing business.
  - lixtra 8y ago
    My point is that they can very well manage their processes if they want to. They could run proper retail for B2B if they wanted as well.
    - hinkley 8y ago
      It does matter. Typical advice from around town: working on the AWS team is okay, the rest of Amazon is a dumpster fire. I shudder to think what kind of “lessons” are being learned by all of those college grads that go work for Amazon.