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Eh, just counting outages doesn't do anything imo. Most providers consider something like < 99% availability for > 5 minutes an outage. Outages like that are ex
by cheeze 7y ago
Eh, just counting outages doesn't do anything imo. Most providers consider something like < 99% availability for > 5 minutes an outage. Outages like that are expected in any single region and product.
If I really need perfect availability (I probably don't), then I can leverage the multiple regions and build a failovers strategy.
I do not expect global outages which affect multiple regions at the same time. That's just amateur hour when it is a common occurrence.
- zie 7y agoOf course there are solutions to outages. Multiple regions, failover, multiple cloud providers, or just don't put all your eggs in $CLOUD, and do some on-prem as well, etc, etc, etc. There are many ways to handle outages. I'm just saying if you are averaging 4+ outages PER MONTH across all of your services, you are probably doing something wrong. These providers are on schedule to pass 50 outages this year! All the places I've ever worked, if we can count our customer facing outages per year past the number of planets humans live on(1) we consider ourselves a total failure that year and re-work our planning. We haven't had to re-work our plans in ~ 5 years. Our longest outage in the past 5 years? 1 hr long. Granted I'm not the scale of $CLOUD, but there is zero reason they can't get serious about uptime, they just don't bother. People are still flocking to $CLOUD in droves, despite their crappy uptimes. It's not rocket science to make stuff work, you just have to get Boring(tm). Where Boring here means using standard, boring, well understood technology that everyone knows and understands and not $NEWHOTNESS. $NEWHOTNESS is guaranteed to break in new and exciting ways.