Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by canes123456 3393 days ago
That never made sense. What happened during holiday season? Everyone on AWS was put on hold?
2 comments

Amazon.com, even at its peak computing needs, is now a drop in the bucket.

Three years ago, in 2014, AWS was adding the equivalent hardware every day of what ran Amazon.com in 2004, when it was only a $700-million company. [1]

[1] https://www.enterprisetech.com/2014/11/14/rare-peek-massive-...

I don't know for sure but I'm guessing spot pricing for instances went way up.