[yichi]

I do recall reading somewhere that Amazon.com isn't actually hosted or fully leveraging on the AWS platform, mostly due to the political struggle between the AWS and the merchant department.

[Raphmedia]

Sales Department: "We require 100% uptime! Can you do that?"

AWS Department: "Wellll, if we don't change the status to red, it's as if we were up all the time!"

[p0rkbelly]

There are public talks on Youtube from Amazon.com titled "Drinking our own Champagne" where they say the opposite.

[krakensden]

Yeah, that was the original pitch for AWS. Engineering presentations since the initial launch have included "yeah... not quite" admissions though.