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Amazon-Stripe partnership

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258 points polyrand | 2 comments | 23 Jan 23 15:38 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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capableweb ◴[23 Jan 23 16:37 UTC] No.34491069[source]▶
> We couldn’t run without AWS [...] said David Singleton, chief technology officer of Stripe

I know this is a PR piece, but shouldn't a CTO know better? What could they possible not have achieved if they weren't using AWS? Literally every feature of AWS exists somewhere else. Maybe not all of the same features in the same place, but to say they couldn't run Stripe without AWS strikes me a bit silly.

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1. jaywalk ◴[23 Jan 23 16:41 UTC] No.34491153[source]▶
You said it yourself, it's a PR piece. After signing a massive deal with Amazon, you want the CTO to say "yeah, our software could easily run on Azure or GCP, but Amazon just gave us a massive deal so we're sticking with AWS."

Don't take it literally.

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2. capableweb ◴[23 Jan 23 16:42 UTC] No.34491195[source]▶
Even so, saying something like "We really like AWS so that's what we're doubling down on" (but with more PR/flowery language) rather than "Stripe would be impossible without AWS" would have been a more balanced statement while still a giving them praise.