FWIW 100% of the Amazon retail website is run on EC2 (and iirc it's 100% on spot... | Hacker News

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		ryanianian on July 16, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Prime Down: Amazon’s sale day turns into fail day FWIW 100% of the Amazon retail website is run on EC2 (and iirc it's 100% on spot instances too). (There are of course lots of internal services that still use non-ec2 capacity but fewer and fewer every day.)

15charlimitdumb on July 16, 2018 | [–]

note though it is not 100% AWS, ex they use Akamai instead of cloudfront

discodave on July 16, 2018 | [–]

I don't think the spot thing is accurate. Amazon retail EC2 capacity is more like reserved instances.

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