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A lot of AWS is very old and it's very hard to go back and make everything nice and reliable without breaking things when you have a shitload of customers 24/7
by staticassertion 5y ago
A lot of AWS is very old and it's very hard to go back and make everything nice and reliable without breaking things when you have a shitload of customers 24/7 using your services.
So yes, in theory much of AWS's services are probably very reliable and distributed across AZs and regions, but in practice there's likely a whole bunch of debt where one thing gets fucked up and it cascades.
- 6510 5y agoA profitable "accident".
- stormbeard 5y agoAs an AWS employee, you’re under too much artificial deadline pressure to address technical debt like this… let alone engineer a service properly in the first place.
- datavirtue 5y agoAs a corporate employee, you’re under too much artificial deadline pressure to address technical debt like this… let alone engineer a service properly in the first place.