Amazon famously mandated such internal services at one point: https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611 https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611 This was r

Amazon famously mandated such internal services at one point: https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611 https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611 This was rather a long time ago now so I wouldn't be surprised if things have changed since then, though having never worked at Amazon I wouldn't know one way or the other.