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AWS is fed up with tech that wasn’t built for clouds, it has a big blast radius
- dehrmann 6y agoOh, a literal blast radius. This feels like old news. I remember reading about Google making its own network hardware 5+ years ago and putting parts of the data center in shipping containers. When you're operating some of the largest datacenters ever made, you're going to build a lot of your own stuff.
- verdverm 6y agoI've heard Google engineers say "If you don't build your own hardware, you don't understand security" more than once. Beyond typical data center HW, things like their door locks and badges are custom.
- steve_g 6y agoThat's astonishing that Amazon builds its own "switch gears" software, as the article calls it. I assume these are the Automatic Transfer Switches (ATS) that connect to battery power or generator power when there's a main power failure. It may be that they want to go back onto main power using their own criteria for stability.