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Like most Amazon services, its a "will this work and make money, backfill if needed." I have nothing against big A, they often use this strategy to try a bunch
by hobs 12y ago
Like most Amazon services, its a "will this work and make money, backfill if needed."
I have nothing against big A, they often use this strategy to try a bunch of stuff out and see if it works, almost always at a loss, and see how they can make money off of it.
Anyone who has looked into Glacier (for instance) will see that Amazon probably didnt buy a bunch of crazy robots, but is more likely selling EC2 at a loss to see if anyone thinks this is a good idea, and then some sort of plan backing it when they see enough volume to care.
- sukilot 12y agoCrazy robots? Isn't Glacier just tape storage? Big companies use regular robots for that.
- fragmede 12y agoAmazon hasn't publicly stated what technology Glacier is based on. It's been speculated that instead of throwing out previous generation AWS hardware, they're simply repurposing then into cheap storage nodes for Glacier.
- EwanToo 12y agoI can well imagine it started that way, but the density of tape over disk makes it seem likely to me that by now they're on custom versions of Spectra tape libraries, which pretty much fits into the "Try selling it, if it sells, make something cheap to run it" philosophy.