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wolfwyrd··on The Case Against ISP Tolls
It's not the Fiber that's the fee earner. By having more people connected with faster, more stable connections they can continue pushing the envelope with things like higher definition on YouTube and suchlike but this is the razzle-dazzle that people will see without noting the true purpose; you're accessing the net through their service so they can now pin all of your surfing habits to a physical person driving more benefit to their primary Ad business.
wolfwyrd··on Balanced's Architecture
I suppose it comes down to the amount of investment available. Amazon can pour resources into security, monitoring and have a large staff actively keeping an eye on such things. They're signed off for PCI compliance Level 1[0] (Any service provider that stores, processes and/or transmits over 300,000 transactions annually) which helps isolate you from a lot of costs around getting your dedicated hardware audited yourself.

It's also worth noting that Amazon.com itself is hosted off AWS (since ~2010) though I'm struggling to find a good cite for that

[0] http://aws.amazon.com/compliance/pci-dss-level-1-faqs/

[1] http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/amazoncom-runs-on-amaz...

wolfwyrd··on Clever Algorithms [2009] [pdf]
After a hasty search it seems this has made it to the HN front page before. The comments are here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2141542
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