Target is plotting a big move away from AWS as Amazon takes over retail

Post by meow_mix » Wed, Aug 30, 2017, 6:44 AM UTC

mankash666 wrote: post #3

The article missed one huge factor: date farming by AWS/Amazon. If one has data on pricing and sales across retail and online channels on a national scale, how risky would a purchase of a retailer really be? Not much, as you can pivot towards high sales, high profit products without doubting your strategy Target, Walmart & other retailers de-risked Amazon's purchase of wholefoods

Post by hueving » Wed, Aug 30, 2017, 7:01 AM UTC

meow_mix wrote: post #12

mankash666 wrote: post #3

The article missed one huge factor: date farming by AWS/Amazon. If one has data on pricing and sales across retail and online channels on a national scale, how risky would a purchase of a retailer really be? Not much, as you can pivot towards high sales, high profit products without doubting your strategy Target, Walmart & other retailers de-risked Amazon's purchase of wholefoods

Amazon is a company that cares about credibility above all else, plus word travels fast in software engineering circles. Seems unlikely they would risk snooping

Post by hueving » Wed, Aug 30, 2017, 7:04 AM UTC

jedberg wrote: post #11

Gaelan wrote: post #4

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Do we know Amazon's policy on "peeking" into people's AWS data? I feel like they would have something against that in their ToS/Privacy Policy.

That absolutely will not look at your data under any circumstance, even if you specifically ask them to. Multiple times I was trying to troubleshoot an issue and asked them to "just log into the database" and they said they have very strict policies against that. There is no way they have any of Target's data.

Post by bdcravens » Wed, Aug 30, 2017, 7:40 AM UTC

hueving wrote: post #16

jedberg wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That absolutely will not look at your data under any circumstance, even if you specifically ask them to. Multiple times I was trying to troubleshoot an issue and asked them to "just log into the database" and they said they have very strict policies against that. There is no way they have any of Target's data.

Customer service not doing it in front of a customer is a lot different than Amazon not doing it at all. Doesn't Reddit have a policy against secretly editing user's posts? Didn't precisely that happen during the election by an admin?

Post by cm2187 » Wed, Aug 30, 2017, 7:49 AM UTC

linkregister wrote: post #10

mankash666 wrote: post #6

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They're the system admins on all their managed databases. Think about it

Not that Target is well-known to be good at security, but if AWS was discovered snooping on their data that would probably be the end of their business. Not to mention the tsunami of lawsuits launched by other companies spooked by the scandal. I can't imagine any manager or engineer willing to risk their career doing so. Then again, a director at Volkswagen agreed to intentionally cheat emissions tests, so perhaps an…