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When I pay for compute on AWS, I get an SLA with guarantees. Why are citizens afforded any less?
by stochastic_monk 7y ago
When I pay for compute on AWS, I get an SLA with guarantees. Why are citizens afforded any less?
- mattnewton 7y agoBecause AWS is competing for savvy customers, and US telecoms increasing look like a cartel.
- rayiner 7y agoYou can pay for a fiber line with an SLA, etc. They cost hundreds to thousands of dollars a month, even in downtown areas with several business fiber providers to choose from.
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- dboreham 7y agoYou do realize that AWS SLA is about as much BS as the "unlimited" cell data plans we're discussing here, right? All it says is that if they fail to deliver service, with a bunch of exclusions that make it very unlikely they will ever do so, then you get to not pay for that service that you didn't get. http://aws.amazon.com/compute/sla/ http://aws.amazon.com/compute/sla/
- TheCoelacanth 7y agoThat is very much more real than what you get from an ISP. If an ISP doesn't meet the advertised bandwidth, at best you get an apology. More likely you get nothing. You definitely aren't getting a refund for the service you didn't get.
- krageon 7y ago> with a bunch of exclusions that make it very unlikely they will ever do so I think the meat of their argument was that they have weaseled it in such a way that you're not getting what you expect unless you read all the fine print. Then it turns out you get basically nothing. From that point it's not a stretch to say the situation has not improved when compared to consumers: They also get nothing.