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We are talking about Amazon.com, not AWS. They are completely independent services
by munimkazia 13y ago
We are talking about Amazon.com, not AWS. They are completely independent services
- throwaway86542 13y agoAmazon.com does run on EC2. You can bet that if EC2 had a a complete regional outage (which is extremely rare) Amazon.com would be down. In general Amazon.com makes extensive use of AWS services internally as well, but it's very well architected to handle service outages without it being immediately obvious to the end user.
- rpdillon 13y agoAmazon.com doesn't run on EC2.
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- Tobani 13y agoI understand this wasn't a general AWS outage, AWS !== amazon.com, and that successful hosting in EC2 requires specific architectural decisions to make things run reliably in face of zone/region outages. What i didn't realize was that jokes about Amazon being somewhat slow and cryptic with information about outages while they're happening were off-limits.