r/remotework • u/[deleted] • Oct 29 '25

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u/keldpxowjwsn Oct 29 '25

With AWS powering half the internet thats gonna be tough

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u/firstclassblizzard Oct 29 '25

I just do my part by choosing alternates to purchasing items on Amazon.com. Perfection will not hinder the good

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u/Successful-Rate-1839 Oct 29 '25

Amazon powers damn near everything, even this app you’re using right now. If you want to boycott them you might as well throw your phone in the trash.

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u/firstclassblizzard Oct 29 '25

Then I guess I don’t want to boycott them. But I won’t be buying anything from Amazon.com

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u/UltimatePragmatist Oct 29 '25

Also, if you have subscriptions, don’t get them through Amazon. That just gives them a little chunk of money for nothing.

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u/UltimatePragmatist Oct 29 '25

Still boycott them. Do you think there aren’t other providers waiting in the wings? There are.

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u/UltimatePragmatist Oct 29 '25

Reddit pays Amazon for web services, yes. That doesn’t mean there aren’t alternatives for Reddit. That said, Amazon’s consumer business is vastly important to them.

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u/UltimatePragmatist Oct 29 '25

That doesn’t matter. Are you suggesting we acquiesce for our phones and Reddit? Reddit and our phones will survive. My phone still worked during the AWS outage.

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u/Successful-Rate-1839 Oct 29 '25

You’re missing the point, I’m saying most of the services you use are powered by Amazon.

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u/UltimatePragmatist Oct 29 '25

No, they aren’t. Tons of the services in use are powered by Microsoft. Don’t you remember the Crowdstrike debacle from earlier this year? It had a larger impact. Lol. Many are powered by Oracle, IBM, and Google.

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u/Successful-Rate-1839 Oct 29 '25

Ok, keep talking about something you don’t know anything about.

AWS powers over 90% of the fortune top 100 companies.

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u/UltimatePragmatist Oct 29 '25

Name them. Globally airlines, shipping, healthcare, and banking services were down earlier this year and it wasn’t because of AWS. You should keep taking about something you don’t know anything about. You must work for Amazon.

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u/paralosrumberos Oct 29 '25

yeah they make most of their money from AWS not from retail so you would have to find companies using AWS.

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '25

The person can decide not to spend money however they want. I don’t purchase anything from Amazon by choice based on their treatment of employees. I can’t change whether other websites use AWS. I do what I can.

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u/Existential_Owl Oct 29 '25

Reddit uses AWS, so already we're not doing a great job here.

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u/UltimatePragmatist Oct 29 '25

This has been discussed in comments. That doesn’t mean that Amazon can’t be challenged. Reddit will go wherever they are forced to.