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> doubt azure or AWS are going to go down with a probability that should worry any business Were you asleep when S3 East failed to the point that half of the i
by WrtCdEvrydy 6y ago
> doubt azure or AWS are going to go down with a probability that should worry any business
Were you asleep when S3 East failed to the point that half of the internet was offline or did you just not get a notification?
https://aws.amazon.com/message/41926/ https://aws.amazon.com/message/41926/
> The only danger with cloud providers is that if your engineering team is not exactly smart you can rack up a million dollar bill for a dog walking app
The public cloud has never been recession tested and these next few years may be the only way to do it. The model works as long as there are people willing to pay for Amazon and Azure will raise prices if the base load drops below a certain point.
- sukilot 6y agoHouses catch fire/flood/tornado too. The question is overall SLI, and multihoming, not has there ever been an outage.
- scarface74 6y agoAnd that half of the internet decided that it wasn’t worth it to have multi region redundancy. I’m not saying that was a bad decision. It all depends on how much they would lose in an outage vs. cost.
- WrtCdEvrydy 6y agoThis also includes AWS because they stored the images for the dashboard in S3 East.