[HN Gopher] The Amazon Prime Day 2023 AWS Bill
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       The Amazon Prime Day 2023 AWS Bill
        
       Author : bpugh
       Score  : 42 points
       Date   : 2023-08-16 20:36 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | fragmede wrote:
       | Did any AWS customers experience unavailability during prime day,
       | eg capacity issues launching instances, due to prime day taking
       | precedence over other customers? If there are, they're under NDA
       | so we'd never know.
        
       | mokarma wrote:
       | Naive question: What are they using EBS for? It seems unnecessary
       | given all the Databases. Is that just local caching for EC2's?
        
         | cj wrote:
         | EBS is just a networked hard drive, so they could really be
         | using it for anything storage related.
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         | Is Amazon's general architecture for their retail site publicly
         | described anywhere?
        
         | yowlingcat wrote:
         | Well, not to answer your question with a question, but what
         | would you imagine backs all of those database services? Or,
         | said another way, I'm not sure Corey Quinn is mapping the cost
         | dependency graph correctly by giving this breakdown as mutually
         | exclusive (from the standpoint of AWS internally).
        
         | OJFord wrote:
         | Well, without precluding other use, not even specifically
         | caching but just disk for EC2 instances.
        
         | ripper1138 wrote:
         | It's disk storage for EC2
        
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