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... and it's a different risk from self-hosting, but self-hosting provides all sorts of similar issues (such as when you do this to yourself, the cost is now co
by fixermark 10y ago
... and it's a different risk from self-hosting, but self-hosting provides all sorts of similar issues (such as when you do this to yourself, the cost is now coming out of your pocket, not Amazon's, to employ software engineers to harden your scripts against making the same mistake twice).
- thr0waway1239 10y agoNot to mention, Amazon is catching the long tail of cloud failure like Google is catching the long tail of search keywords. They can now say with a somewhat straight face - "You know all those scripts you run to keep everything up? We have figured out many, many more possible ways for them to fail than you probably ever will, and we have added more layers of safeguards than you can even imagine."