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		xkjkls on July 16, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Prime Down: Amazon’s sale day turns into fail day That was quickly adjusted. I think like 3 years ago, Amazon publicly was saying that every day to AWS they were adding the same amount of computing power that was used to run Amazon.com when it was a $10 billion business. AWS is massively greater in scale than Amazon.com at this point.

ec109685 on July 17, 2018 | [–]

Scaling services for many independent businesses is somewhat of a different challenge than “vertically” scaling for one large one like amazon.com.

chronid on July 17, 2018 | [–]

I cannot confirm or deny that (since my memories are sorta fuzzy), but the real problem was not EC2 capacity. Many other AWS services were involved. :)

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