I wonder how many of that were made by bots looking for the best prices...
Prime Day 2017: 12.9M DynamoDB requests per second
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> A study conducted by Consumer Watchdog in March found that for 61% of Amazon AMZN, -2.48% products, the pre-discounted price or “reference price” used for comparison with the new sale price was higher than what the products had been sold for in the past 90 days. This means the amount Amazon advertises under “you save” could be inaccurate. Amazon said the prices reflect averages of prices listed by competitors and o…
This sounds pretty tame to me. Hardly the Deep Throat moment you're making it out to be. In fact, I'd wager that most retailers probably do this for big sales events.
Other retailers doing it doesn't absolve Amazon
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Part of is because gcp became a product much later in google's history. As a result, most of the products that were used were tied to internal google infra, and was hard to put on gcp.
I think this will gradually change. Kubernetes came out of all the internal learning after all, I would be surprised if they aren't putting new greenfield stuff on GCP and other Google Cloud products.
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I'm not going to say you're lying but I think you're being eh misleading. This investigation is happening due to increased scrutiny of the Whole Foods merger and isn't a formal investigation by the FTC. Effectively the FTC is required to do its due diligence and the FTC has not accused Amazon of anything. It's some third-party group making the accusation.
> A study conducted by Consumer Watchdog in March found that for 61% of Amazon AMZN, -2.48% products, the pre-discounted price or “reference price” used for comparison with the new sale price was higher than what the products had been sold for in the past 90 days. This means the amount Amazon advertises under “you save” could be inaccurate. Amazon said the prices reflect averages of prices listed by competitors and o…
Isn't this what brick and mortar retailers do all the time? The "save" amount is (in my experience) often based on an inflated list price, which makes it look like you're "saving" more.
Doing so is still dodgy - but what makes it different when Amazon does it vs anyone else?
Re: Prime Day 2017: 12.9M DynamoDB requests per second
#55Must be nice if you don't have to pay for it...
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#56Something I appreciate very much with AWS is how much dogfooding Amazon does. In contrast, Google has said in the past that GCP is not used by Google engineers (and it shows, occasionally GCP goes down but actual Google products do not!). There is also no clear indication that Microsoft is actively using the public deployment of Azure.
> In contrast, Google has said in the past that GCP is not used by Google engineers (and it shows, occasionally GCP goes down but actual Google products do not!) Amazon (the shopping website) is generally online when AWS goes down, so that doesn't really indicate anything. Also, GCP is directly modeled after the infrastructure that Google uses to develop internally. I don't know if it's actually the same exact infras…
This is on point, GCP is modeled after Google's infrastructure not how Google itself is run. Whereas Amazon runs on the same technology just not in the same datacenter.
(My impression is that Amazon operates out of a different region than the public AWS. Much like GovCloud isn't the same as the public regions. Hence an AWS region being impacted doesn't necessarily impact Amazon itself since their separately operated.)
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Microsoft employee / Developer Advocate for Azure here. We run a lot of services and applications on public Azure. This trend is only increasing.
Some examples?
I would guess at least number of backend services for Xbox One titles. I remember seeing an advert for Titanfall being run on Azure. That was a few years ago so my memory may be flawed.
I suspect 343 Industries (Microsoft Studio behind the latest Halo games) also uses it. They are one of the big users of Project Orleans https://dotnet.github.io/orleans/, a C# distributed actor framework. Most of their documentation and samples are shown using the framework in Azure.
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
> In contrast, Google has said in the past that GCP is not used by Google engineers (and it shows, occasionally GCP goes down but actual Google products do not!) Amazon (the shopping website) is generally online when AWS goes down, so that doesn't really indicate anything. Also, GCP is directly modeled after the infrastructure that Google uses to develop internally. I don't know if it's actually the same exact infras…
This is on point, GCP is modeled after Google's infrastructure not how Google itself is run. Whereas Amazon runs on the same technology just not in the same datacenter. (My impression is that Amazon operates out of a different region than the public AWS. Much like GovCloud isn't the same as the public regions. Hence an AWS region being impacted doesn't necessarily impact Amazon itself since their separately operated.…
The idea that Amazon uses a different / secret AWS region is false.
However, not all of Amazon.com has migrated to AWS.
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
Part of is because gcp became a product much later in google's history. As a result, most of the products that were used were tied to internal google infra, and was hard to put on gcp.
I think this will gradually change. Kubernetes came out of all the internal learning after all, I would be surprised if they aren't putting new greenfield stuff on GCP and other Google Cloud products.
This is true for smaller projects.
Big projects are still built out of GCP mostly for cost reasons - google doesn't give itself a discount on gcp