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serioussecurity on March 23, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Is Facebook Not in the Cloud Business?

Yes and no. They run on the same hardware and share a lot of the internal tools. Which is a very big lift.

eeZah7Ux on March 23, 2020 [–]

False.

rossjudson on March 23, 2020 | [–]

Wrong; it's true. I work on Google Cloud Storage. There are multiple layers of sharing at varying depths. The externally visible APIs to cloud storage are the tip of the iceberg, and the iceberg is very, very deep.

eeZah7Ux on March 24, 2020 | | [–]

The part about AWS is false.

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