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>I've heard Amazon.com doesn't even use AWS — was this ever acurate?

What? AWS spun out of Amazon.com having extra servers/infa after the holiday season rush and pushed for an internal way to monetize their extra compute/storage power.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Web_Services

https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/amazon/

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I've read that they did use it for some time then stopped. People then took AWS to be "Amazon Scale" despite not being true/misleading.[0] If I'm reading it right, even your own link only says they are using s3 for backing up their database.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33024415

It's a creation myth/legend IIRC

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