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Follow-up, this post getting love on HN seems to have helped us get their attention. We had a conference call with them where we were able to work through a lot of the issues we we…

That may be true, but to be clear, I love the things Amazon produces in general - I just take specific issue with this one team over the last couple months. I can't speak for the o…

It's scant on the details of the rejection because it wasn't his skill that got rejected. His article is specifically about the uproar among the community at the terrible job they'…

The original title is correct in the literal sense - it is not an embellishment. There is ample evidence to support this assertion, and all of it is accessible in the Amazon Develo…

The weird thing about the title change is that the new one isn't even true - they've been running the Kindle app store for quite a while... The user "dang" posted further down in t…

Man, that's weird, I wonder what was different between our implementations. Our original POCs were about 4 months ago, and they were on EC2 at the time. We had plenty of other tech…

I'm the same "Galactoise" quoted in the original story. I'm really happy to see the conversation that cropped up here, about the lack of value around trying to certify a mutable bl…

The solution is to not try to verify the content of a rest service. There is a lot of good that Amazon can do with their certification process - things like helping a developer fig…

This is incorrect - you can absolutely host in EC2. Our two skills are running off of a single EC2 micro instance. There is one really weird thing where you can't use US West to do…