[mfringel]

Exactly. This is all about their earnings. Given a general trend towards decreasing or outsourcing R&D, Amazon is still doing it in-house, because it's their competitive advantage. Explaining that to a bunch of panicky stockholders who just saw a Big Ugly show up on the cashflow statement is mandatory, no matter how much they care about the long-term.

[icey]

I feel like I'm missing something. As of this moment (9:42AM PDT) Amazon's stock is up 5.6% for the day and near a 52 week high. That doesn't seem like panicky shareholders to me.

I'm not a stock maven, so it's possible that I'm missing some important detail.

[groovylick]

AZMN stock climbed over 8% during the AWS outage, the market is disconnected from reality.

[brown9-2]

the market is disconnected from reality

Or perhaps, the impact of any EBS/AWS outage has very little impact on the overall health and success of the entire Amazon business.

[jmatthews]

Just reading his run up regarding their distributed server technology it read to me like a brief ad for AppEngine.

I'm thinking about all of the hardcore neuron work that went in to their infrastructure and how I'm getting a competing product for a song.

[neuroelectronic]

for liberal definitions of "competing" The only similar cloud services are from Microsoft and Google and they are about the same price, definitely not "a song" territory.

[jmatthews]

I meant that given your app works within the restrictions of GAE you get the benefit of a lot of brainpower from men with long beards.

Maybe the association was temporal as I'd just finished watching an IO presentation about how to scheme data for appengine where the detail was primarily the same as Bezos' first few paragraphs.

[neuroelectronic]

Like many conversations, this conflict was only a result of miscommunication.