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AWS was never really something to sell excess capacity, thats a myth. And anyway now, it is vastly bigger than Amazon's compute needs. The stockmarket would lik
by justincormack 12y ago
AWS was never really something to sell excess capacity, thats a myth. And anyway now, it is vastly bigger than Amazon's compute needs. The stockmarket would like it to be sold off, but not sure it will be.
- vidarh 12y agoIt would be terrifying if AWS was just Amazon's excess capacity, as then one might want to ask what would happen when Amazon suddenly needed the capacity... Apart from for spot instances, a lot of people have never seemed to get that Amazon needs to over-provision massively because of how the product works, and that their customers still need to cover the cost of all that over capacity.
- mattmcknight 12y agoNo one said it was "just" Amazon's excess capacity. However, they do use it...so it is way of not paying for their excess capacity, just like everyone else's use is.
- mattmcknight 12y agoAmazon needs extra capacity at peak times, are you saying they don't use AWS for that?