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		liveaxle on April 22, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon was Down AFAIK the "Amazon runs on AWS" meme was originally a line of pure marketing tripe.

frehpt on April 22, 2013 [–]

Incorrect, Amazon.com runs on AWS: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5588012

nevir on April 22, 2013 | [–]

AWS tech maybe, but you can be pretty assured that the data centers (or at least networks) are are almost completely segregated.

crucifiction on April 23, 2013 | | [–]

Nope, its all mixed outside of software segregation.

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