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I wonder to what extent this actually becomes less of a problem the more people use AWS. At this point AWS being down just feels like "the internet is down", it
by alecbz 5y ago
I wonder to what extent this actually becomes less of a problem the more people use AWS. At this point AWS being down just feels like "the internet is down", it's hard for customers to be too mad at any company being down when all their competitors are too.
Though I guess there's still probably just lost revenue that could be captured by having better uptime, even if your competitors are down.
- AQuantized 5y agoThis seems like an interesting pendulum swing where the few companies not reliant on AWS could capture significant enough revenue by maintaining uptime during a potential busy season outage.
- ryanbrunner 5y agoThat depends on them being up the rest of the time. If they have an equal number of outages as AWS, it has the risk to make them look worse (since all attention is on them when they're out).
- hwers 5y agoThese two outages have been incredibly anomalous, I doubt you'd get much revenue betting that they'll be a common occurrence.
- tapan_jk 5y agoAgree. Now viable alternatives exist. The nextgen cloud providers will learn from the weaknesses of incumbents and innovate.
- FridayoLeary 5y agoMaybe they'll just find themselves DDOSed by the sudden influx of visitors? As a small example, i think HN was slightly slower when FB had their outage.