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There are over 2000 negative reviews on the Amazon page from people complaining that they were there at 5 and go nothing but errors (myself included).

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Amazon own website can't run properly on AWS?

Parts of it don't run on AWS.

I wouldn't have expected that. Any idea which parts and why?

"At the time I was at Amazon, working on the retail site, none of Amazon.com was running on AWS. I know, when AWS was announced, with great fanfare, they said "the services that power Amazon.com can now power your business!" or words to that effect. This was a flat out lie."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3102129

I remember reading that but somehow forgot about it. It makes me wonder if the creation of AWS was an end run around devs and/or ops teams unwilling to evolve. Very political organizations seem to have such a hard time with big shifts in thinking.

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