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Until they move off of sable, their NoSQL backend for retail, calling them mostly on AWS is laughable especially considering their major prime day outage this l

• amzn-throw 8y ago
  Depends on what you mean by mostly. Almost all code runs on EC2. All object storage is in S3. Almost all service asynchronous interactions are decoupled via SQS. Almost all notifications are shared via SNS. Yes, most legacy systems use Sable but most new development for the last 2 years uses DynamoDB. More and more event-driven applications with highly variable throughout are on Lambda. Even on AWS Service teams. The Sable outage had a particularly laughable interpretation by the armchair quarterbacks from CNBC. The kind of scale involved makes Oracle-based approaches completely infeasible. (the internal Correction of Error document leaked and was wildly mis understood) And the scaling timelines involved are so compressed that no company in their right mind "dynamically scales up as a result" - it's always projected scheduled scaling. There were other cascading effects. I know it's fun to dunk on Amazon but their commitment to operational excellence is unparalleled as public AWS post mortems after major events should reveal. If you read the entire Correction of Error document on tbe Sable outage you'd agree, of course CNBC would never publish that, one gets more clicks by getting a professor out of touch with the realities of production software engineering to blurb some juicy quotes.