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> The bigger question for me is why Amazon has been able to figure out the technical details necessary to run this kind of service for this price. I guess they
by perlgeek 14y ago
> The bigger question for me is why Amazon has been able to figure out the technical details necessary to run this kind of service for this price.
I guess they grew the infrastructure for themselves, optimizing it bit by bit over the years. And then noticed that it could be sold too.
- justincormack 14y agoThey seem to have taken their own business requirements for amazon.com and reimplemented them on commodity hardware.
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