Comment by ilamont
6 days ago
You know, at one time Amazon was grouped in with all of the other big tech companies as a member of FAANG, as if the company has a culture of solid engineering at its core like Google or Apple.
It doesn't anymore, if it ever did. Read the shareholder letters over the last 5 years like this one (https://sellercentral.amazon.com/seller-forums/discussions?s...). Every day there are stories about back-end things breaking, or AIs overriding attributes or flagging random items as pesticides. The receiving errors at Amazon warehouses are incredible, and take months and multiple support tickets to fix.
> other times it's AWS regions going dark for hours.
They have the best uptime of all major cloud providers.