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so does my toaster, oven and microwave. so what? they get used a few times a day, but my production level equipment serves millions in an hour.

• iso1210 5y ago
  My lightswitch is used twice a day, yet it works every time. In the old days it would occasionally break (bulb goes), I would be empowered to fix it myself (change the bulb). In the cloud you're at the mercy of someone who doesn't even know you exist to fix it, without the protections that say an electric company has with supplying domestic users. This thread has people unable to turn their lights on[0], it's hilarious how people tie their stuff to dependencies that aren't needed, with a history of constant failure. If you want to host millions of people, then presumably your infrastructure can cope with the loss of a single AZ (and ideally the loss of Amazon as a whole). The vast majority of people will be far better off without their critical infrastructure going down in the middle of the day in the busiest sales season going. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29475499 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29475499