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Ok, many of these cloud platforms charge more if you have things duplicated across regions/zones. EG. AWS has multiAZ. Why pay for this? When AWS has a major
by ransom1538 8y ago
Ok, many of these cloud platforms charge more if you have things duplicated across regions/zones. EG. AWS has multiAZ. Why pay for this? When AWS has a major issue - all zones/regions are fucked in some way.
- Tehnix 8y agoThat’s actually a point that AWS tried to hit on during their last re:Invent conference. When their competitors say multiple availability zones, read the fine print, and you’ll see that it is far from being as resilient as AWS. Sometimes other cloud providers have even located the two AZs in the same building.... AWS AZs on the other hand are always geographically separated, and they even take into consideration the landscape to see if they need to be further away (earthquakes etc). It’s staggering how much of a lead AWS has on others when in comes to their AZs and global network infrastructure.
- sterwill 8y agoWhen has AWS had a "major issue" that affected multiple regions (not AZs)?
- cheeze 8y agoBecause by and large, you don't see these outages in GCP/AWS. Both of those companies have invested a ton of energy into creating regional fault tolerance and you rarely if ever see global issues. AWS has seen a few in years past but it's an exception, not the norm. Azure seems to have these issues on a regular cadence.