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Amazon is making its employees come back to the office five days a week (www.theverge.com)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 119 points 3 days ago (5 children)

It's easy to avoid buying things from Amazon. It's hard to avoid AWS. It would be insane to try to suss out what provider everyone that I buy stuff from uses, and their third party relationships. Regulation is better.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

It's easy to avoid buying things from Amazon

I mean... Yes but also no.

Amazon have gone to crap in recent years and has become a more upmarket Wish or Temu. Much of their storefront is full of Chinese knock-off brands these days.

What Amazon does offer is somewhat reliable next (and sometimes same) day delivery. The only way you can get something faster is by travelling to a brick & mortar shop and buying in person.

As for AWS, aren't we forgetting that Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Google, even Alibaba and Huawei have their own cloud solutions?

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 days ago

Yep, try browsing with ublock origin blocking all Amazon domains. Lots of things break because AWS is so large.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

In the old days people used to have their own servers...

And you can still buy them...

And the cloud really isn't cheaper...

But whatever, it's ubiquitous today. Maybe someday people will wake the F up.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Exactly. This is just more failures of govt to constrain and regulate.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 days ago

The best way to do this is to correlate downtime with main providers. If a cloud provider goes down when AWS has outages on related services, it's probably using an AWS service.