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It's only a matter of time before they split AWS from Amazon, just wondering why they're waiting so long.
Don't forget that AWS came out of Amazon's need for infrastructure. Amazon is dogfooding with AWS, and that's one of the reasons AWS remains in the lead when it comes to cloud compute platforms. They keep launching new, useful services, that come out of real business use cases.
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Don't forget that AWS came out of Amazon's need for infrastructure. Amazon is dogfooding with AWS, and that's one of the reasons AWS remains in the lead when it comes to cloud compute platforms. They keep launching new, useful services, that come out of real business use cases.
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This is totally wrong. Amazon retail has been running on AWS for years.
But is it even profitable? Operating profits don't include capex. And data centers full of xeons are expensive.
But it's not like they're making a profit just because the servers are "free".
Source: I ran tech ops for an e-commerce company you've likely heard of for ~half a decade.
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Don't forget that AWS came out of Amazon's need for infrastructure. Amazon is dogfooding with AWS, and that's one of the reasons AWS remains in the lead when it comes to cloud compute platforms. They keep launching new, useful services, that come out of real business use cases.
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Except you don't get a bill, you get a receipt that gets buried in tons of junk mail. And as I reply to this, I decided to check my AWS console, because there is an instance for the life of me I can't terminate.
Have you tried changing regions in the console?
I wonder how much of that is people forgetting to shut down unused EC2 instances
I got stung for over $100 just as a casual user, because I never guessed that I had to click through all the (slow loading) regions to see the instances and volumes and snapshots I might have burning money.
The web interface is a total clusterfuck.
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That's way more significant than I would have expected. Still, 8% of their revenue contributes 36% of their profits. Makes you wonder why they don't run AWS at the same cutthroat prices as their other businesses.
Amazon retailer still have competitors coming behind their back, albeit at a distance, but Walmart & co. is nothing to sneeze at. AWS have about ... zero competition where they are right now. Google CLoud, Azure and the like are not doing quite the same thing just yet.
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Have you tried changing regions in the console?
Agreed on this advice. When I was new to AWS I kept receiving a bill for a few cents that obviously wasn't worth my time to resolve, but still really irritated my why I couldn't find a running instance. Turns out the running instance was in a different region and I didn't know the EC2 server list displayed only one region at a time.
for region in `aws ec2 describe-regions | awk '{print $NF}'`; do echo $region; aws ec2 describe-instances --region $region --query 'Reservations[].Instances[].[[Tags[?Key==`Name`]| [0].Value], PublicIpAddress]'; echo ; doneIt's only a matter of time before they split AWS from Amazon, just wondering why they're waiting so long.
Don't forget that AWS came out of Amazon's need for infrastructure. Amazon is dogfooding with AWS, and that's one of the reasons AWS remains in the lead when it comes to cloud compute platforms. They keep launching new, useful services, that come out of real business use cases.
I wonder how much of that is people forgetting to shut down unused EC2 instances