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Of course it depends on your definition of "critical". There was AWS outage ~2 months ago and banking systems around the world worked pretty well, same with mil
by Tom4hawk 9y ago
Of course it depends on your definition of "critical".
There was AWS outage ~2 months ago and banking systems around the world worked pretty well, same with military, big factories didn't stop because of this outage, planes were still flying etc.
It was inconvenient for some people (quite frankly I didn't even notice anything - I've read about that in my RSS reader few days later ;)) but nobody died(excluding heart attacks), countries didn't collapse, wars didn't start because of this.
- openasocket 9y agoThe outage was for S3, and only in the us-east-1 region. Any critical system should have multi-region fail over. Yeah, factories and planes and stuff are critical and wouldn't use AWS, mostly because those are embedded systems that shouldn't even rely on an Internet connection. But as for banking, Capital One is a huge AWS customer for example. DISCLAIMER: probably should have mentioned this earlier, I'm an AWS employee :)