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The 10% savings of ~$10 does not compare to time/potential business lost, but thanks for the tip :)

• mabbo 10y ago
  > potential business lost My startup's op team had a great discussion today because of this that basically boils down to "if we hit our sales goals, an incident like this a year from now would end our company". Looks like our plans to start prepping for multi-cloud support will be a higher priority.
  • kevan 10y ago
    A low-cost first step is enabling cross-region replication [1]. [1] http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/crr.html http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/crr.html
  • omni 10y ago
    > an incident like this a year from now would end our company I'm genuinely curious, what kind of business are you in that a four hour outage would end the company? High frequency trading or something?
    • itake 10y ago
      not op, but when i worked in the ticketing business if this happened during a big on sale we would get hosed.
    • mabbo 10y ago
      You're in the right ball park- services for traders and brokers in the finance industry. A two hour outage during trading hours would be an extinction level event.
  • owenmarshall 10y ago
    I'd be willing to bet that the effort you put into a multi-cloud solution will be more expensive than you think, and far more brittle in the event of an emergency. It always is.
    • mabbo 10y ago
      You're not wrong, but if your customers can't afford an outage, you can't afford not having a fallback plan. Probably worth a few trial runs during low volume hours to be sure.
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