The entire point of "prime day", which actually started many years ago with a massive sale selling XBox consoles for $100/ea, is to test out their infrastructure. They can test using simulated connections, but that only goes so far. They need to be able to test AWS with massive demand on unpredictable pages, and have the system scale appropriately. What better way to do this than to shove a few "sales" at a bunch of products, and then contact literally every media outlet in the country to promote it. Seriously, name a local news channel NOT hyping the prime day event. This is simply Amazon creating quite possibly the worlds largest single day beta test of new infrastructure code, and done annually. The big difference this year is that something didn't work right, so engineers were right on the spot to scale things up manually by hand.
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https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12390104&cid=56998942 [slashdot.org]
The entire point of "prime day", which actually started many years ago with a massive sale selling XBox consoles for $100/ea, is to test out their infrastructure. They can test using simulated connections, but that only goes so far. They need to be able to test AWS with massive demand on unpredictable pages, and have the system scale appropriately. What better way to do this than to shove a few "sales" at a bunch of products, and then contact literally every media outlet in the country to promote it. Seriously, name a local news channel NOT hyping the prime day event. This is simply Amazon creating quite possibly the worlds largest single day beta test of new infrastructure code, and done annually. The big difference this year is that something didn't work right, so engineers were right on the spot to scale things up manually by hand.
なるほどな
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確かにプライムデーはシステムの負荷テストには打って付けですね
AWSがダウンしたら損害賠償などで確実にamazonに損害が出ますが
今回の障害はさほど実害もなく，むしろサイトが重くなっているという宣伝効果さえあったように思います．
amazonとしては新しいシステムのテストだけでなく，負荷対策のノウハウも蓄積できて
むしろプラスになったということでしょうか．
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とはいえ主力商品の１つが機能しなかったってのは痛い
ショップサイトのアマゾンにとっては宣伝になったかもしれませんが
本体のAWSのほうのダメージが大きい