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opendais | 11 years ago

In case anyone was wondering why I bash Amazon's non-AWS technical staff...

They screwed up the promotion, to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars, and 3-5s latency for ads? :P

That is the only part of this complaint I find interesting.

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ncallaway|11 years ago

> They screwed up the promotion, to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars

It's really hard to say from the given context that this was definitely engineering's fault.

You'll note that the various plans for resolving the issue involve updating the Terms & Conditions of the offer. That makes me think that accurate code was implemented against incorrect Terms and Conditions, rather than incorrect code was implemented against accurate Terms and Conditions.

opendais|11 years ago

The latency issue is, I supposed I could have stated it better.