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Senior Software Engineer (Cloud Platform) at Latitude AI

My Amazon.com credit card pays for both Amazon.com and my personal AWS setup. I had a fraud report on my old card, and got a new one. Amazon.com and Whole Foods updated seamlessly. AWS didn't know. I just got an email about the fact that my payment method didn't work. Is this a sign that AWS and Amazon.com really are separate companies? When I worked there, switching between them was equivalent to switching jobs entirely (FULL interview loop, none of your internal performance was taken into account). OR is this a sign that integrating your businesses are hard, and even the biggest and "best" cannot do it? Note: My personal AWS bill is negligible. I use it to glacier my Synology and host my very bad personal website. The cost is << $5/month.

Amazon.com. Spend less. Smile more.

Amazon.com. Spend less. Smile more.

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Andrew Bull

Software Engineer @ Trigo

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IIRC auth/credentials used to be unified between AWS accounts and the retail store. AWS went through a really painful migration to separate them because that’s actually super janky to have them unified (source, a friend that works in AWS Active Directory). Can’t say for sure whether they ever tried to use the same wallet details/payment processing, but if they were it would have to be split at the point they split auth. If payments was ever unified between the two, it was likely a mistake that they’ve since corrected

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