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No I don't think this argument holds water. Whose decision was it to use the centralized cloud service? Ultimately it's on you if your business can't respond t
by throwawayboise 5y ago
No I don't think this argument holds water. Whose decision was it to use the centralized cloud service? Ultimately it's on you if your business can't respond to the customer.
- andrepew 5y agoIf the decision appears reasonable in the context of your industry, you won't be blamed. Phrases like "Nobody ever got fired for buying Cisco/IBM/etc." are tossed around fairly often. If you chose the expensive, gold standard for your use-case and got burned anyway, odds are it won't be held against you. Of course there are exceptions to that. If AWS going down results in loss of life -- you should take measures to avoid it. If the stakes are a day of lost work, the cure might be worse than the disease from a cost perspective.
- Spivak 5y agoIt's not about whether it makes perfect sense, it's about how understating your users are. People treat large cloud service outages like storms. When AWS has issues people aren't mad at me any more than they would be if they couldn't reach my brick-and-mortar store because of a flood.