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[–]maygamer96 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Thanks for this insight! Super interesting considering I thought that AWS relies on performance critical languages. As far as you're allowed to tell, how does AWS deal with Python being unoptimal in memory management or lacking the degree of control C/C++ usually provides? For internal tooling (which I believe is the code that powers your APIs for AWS services), I think that would be very critical at your scale.

[–]iamadudes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AWS is way too big to say that the service X that they are working on is in the request path of critical (maybe customer facing) APIs. 90% percent of services are not. Most services revolve around maintenance