Sometimes it makes you wonder how they manage to even find the reply button

    • The Quuuuuill
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      234 months ago

      In case anyone is interested, Amazon has headquarters in Seattle, Washington and Crystal City, Virginia. They also have data centers in Ashburn, Virginia, Portland, Oregon, and Oakland, California. There’s more, obviously, but those are the ones I have ideas on the location of. The data centers are harder to find. For those you’ll likely need a contact to help you. Your allies will be Amazon employees and meter checkers. You’ll be looking for a building with MASSIVE power draw. And hey. Even if you don’t find an Amazon data center, it’s still good to find buildings with massive power draws because… Well… That’s the worst thing these companies are doing

        • The Quuuuuill
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          124 months ago

          Whatever you do don’t use bucket replication and lambdas to push a massive number of small objects into one bucket that then blows up another bucket

        • Prison Mike
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          44 months ago

          First time I’ve seen someone mention that one by name. Fuck that data center.

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              4 months ago

              Don’t forget to make it the default on everything, especially IoT!

                • Prison Mike
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                  14 months ago

                  Web application developer working with Kubernetes clusters by day, obsessed with networking, cloud, Linux and UNIX by nights/weekends. Also ran into annoying issues with AWS a handful of times and never went back.

        • 🐍🩶🐢
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          24 months ago

          That was the best day ever when it went down a few years ago while I was doing an install of an Amazon site. They have some “test” software that we have to run to validate the system and it was completely down. Still got some things done that day, but it was utterly hilarious to watch all of the Amazon personnel run around in a panic for a few hours. Fucking Prime trucks stuck on the side of the road with no instructions on what to do next. Utterly precious.

    • Altima NEO
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      164 months ago

      It’s technically against their tos to change the product. But sellers are shady assholes.

        • Altima NEO
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          24 months ago

          Never said they were powerless. Just that it’s against the tos.

          Is you report them, sometimes Amazon does something about it. Sometimes.

      • Natanael
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        114 months ago

        It’s super easy to detect change of product category and a bunch of other similar major changes. Especially now with ML classifiers, it’s even easier. They could automatically lock the page and require review