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This conclusion "The cloud is just a .. blah blah blah" is weak: Amazon offers isolated availability zones within each region to mitigate this risk at the syste
by carlsborg 7y ago
This conclusion "The cloud is just a .. blah blah blah" is weak: Amazon offers isolated availability zones within each region to mitigate this risk at the system level, it gives you the ability to take EBS snapshots that you can backup on S3 (with 11 9s of durability), and scaling features you just will not find on "just another computer." And you are meant to architect to this with multi-AZ designs.
It's managed infrastructure not some miraculous alternative universe where probabilities do not apply to you.
From the docs:
"Amazon EBS volumes are designed for an annual failure rate (AFR) of between 0.1% - 0.2% ..."
- vectorEQ 7y agothe conclusion is weak but true. people do tend to forget the cloud is also a bunch of computers, and they might fail. however, it's not an argument to avoid cloud entirely, and in that sense its weak as an argument against cloud.
- earth2mars 7y agoexactly. remember, everything fails, all the time. https://thenextweb.com/2008/04/04/werner-vogels-everything-fails-all-the-time/ https://thenextweb.com/2008/04/04/werner-vogels-everything-f...
- philwelch 7y agoAgreed. If the cloud is somebody else's computer, I'm glad to let it be a computer that belongs to an extremely specialized and demanding company that focuses on providing that computer to me as a service.