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I am sure that AWS, Azure and Google Cloud will be the next victims of COVID-19. There's just no way to scale infrastructure up as fast as necessary. People thi
by JackPoach 7y ago
I am sure that AWS, Azure and Google Cloud will be the next victims of COVID-19. There's just no way to scale infrastructure up as fast as necessary. People think about cloud as 'elastic' but there's a fixed number of data centers with a fixed number of servers in each at any give time.
- k__ 7y agoGC maybe, but AWS operates on another level.
- _puk 7y agoNot sure what it's like nowadays, but 5 or so years ago, GC were very proud of being able to scale from 0 to a million users pretty much instantly. [0] At the time AWS needed pre-warming. I've not needed to do that since, so I'm just assuming AWS solved that one (or everyone moved to serverless). Obviously that's not the same as overall capacity, but the AWS good, everyone else bad rhetoric needs challenging sometimes. Ouch.. that was a long time ago.. 0: https://www.forbes.com/sites/reuvencohen/2013/11/26/google-shows-how-to-scale-apps-from-zero-to-one-million-requests-per-second-for-10/amp/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/reuvencohen/2013/11/26/google-s...
- blahbhthrow3748 7y agoAs someone who used GCP at large scale very recently, "stock outs" we're very common for large instance types in specific zones.
- k__ 7y agoI don't think we're talking about scaling out one cloud customers infra here, but scaling out many of them at once.
- JackPoach 7y agoCorrect, the issue is what do you do when everyone needs to scale up at the same time - Slack, Box, Netflix, etc.
- trevyn 7y agoAre you suggesting GCP/AWS/Azure will run out of capacity because of higher usage?
- JackPoach 7y agoI am. They weren't built for the times with EVERYONE needs to scale up at the same time.