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A new kind of war where people won’t be able to get next day delivery on the 5m USB-C cable that they ordered.
by whackernews 7mo ago
A new kind of war where people won’t be able to get next day delivery on the 5m USB-C cable that they ordered.
- samrus 7mo agoBro thinks amazon is the onky thing that uses AWS
- fastball 7mo agoThat is... not what AWS data centers are primarily used for in 2026.
- whackernews 7mo agoYou mean they’re not used to sell me cheap Chinese USB-C cables?
- esseph 7mo agoAWS is also running government, military, medical, university etc systems. Banking.
- allanmacgregor 7mo agoYou confused AWS with Amazon distribution and warehouses, and you are doubling down ? Likely or not, much of the world's infrastructure runs on or through AWS data centers. Attacks like this can cause significant disruption.
- whackernews 7mo ago[dead]
- andrew_gs 7mo agoOr can't withdraw money from their FAB bank accounts as it's dependent on AWS infra. This is pretty much entirely to do with AWS and not the retail website.
- dragonwriter 7mo agoYes, Amazon Retail being the sole significant customer of AWS, I guess?
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