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It's better to rent a datacenter then to build one for companies that reach a certain threshold. At certain amount of loads AWS becomes to limited and expensive

by kerng 8y ago

It's better to rent a datacenter then to build one for companies that reach a certain threshold. At certain amount of loads AWS becomes to limited and expensive. Certainly not true for the typical AWS sites or companies. Even Amazon uses their own separate, dedicated systems for a lot of stuff - not public AWS I heard.

sjwright 8y ago
Any company that owns the infrastructure management tech like AWS would be stupid not to use it themselves. It's likely that what you heard was a misstatement—maybe they use their own isolated instances of the AWS tech, possibly to dogfood new features.
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- kerng 8y ago
  You are in for a surprise. https://jatins.gitlab.io/me/amazon-internal-tools/ https://jatins.gitlab.io/me/amazon-internal-tools/
solidasparagus 8y ago
I'm pretty sure Amazon uses AWS. There's probably still legacy applications running on pre-AWS infra though.
- kerng 8y ago
  They dont, there are internal MAWS movements though, meaning Move to AWS. https://jatins.gitlab.io/me/amazon-internal-tools/ https://jatins.gitlab.io/me/amazon-internal-tools/