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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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marban ◴[23 Jan 23 15:53 UTC] No.34490301[source]▶
~2025: Stripe becomes Amazon SBS — Simple Billing Service
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ignoramous ◴[23 Jan 23 17:22 UTC] No.34491887[source]▶
You kid, but AWS had 2 year head-start on Stripe [0] and here we are...

[0] https://archive.is/R7m9s / https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2007/08/the_amazon_flex...

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1. mardifoufs ◴[23 Jan 23 17:34 UTC] No.34492055[source]▶
What went wrong? Why didn't it take off, and why doesn't amazon have a similar offering on AWS? They have such a wide variety of products there that I'm surprised they didn't try again after 2007.
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2. kijiki ◴[23 Jan 23 18:08 UTC] No.34492563[source]▶
I used it at the time.

It was very ambitious, supporting a scripting language for what are now called smart contracts, and very complex payment schemes.

It was also a huge pain in the ass to integrate, and the user payment flow was wonky, with a redirect to multiple amazon branded pages to log in to amazon, then redirect back to finish the transaction.

I've not used stripe, but people who have tell me it is super easy to integrate.