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I feel like internal implosions mean little unless like all the customers stop paying. The comments seem to indicate that it's Amazon, but unless Azure or some
by jrockway 5y ago
I feel like internal implosions mean little unless like all the customers stop paying. The comments seem to indicate that it's Amazon, but unless Azure or something has a new "import your infrastructure from AWS; we have bug-for-bug compatibility and are 10% of the price", none of this matters for revenue. us-east1 is down every month even when they aren't internally imploding, and it doesn't seem to upset their position of #1.
These companies have so much cash it doesn't matter. I can't imagine things getting so bad that they can't just get rid of R&D and consumer products, and pay a skeleton team of SREs an outrageous amount of money to keep the lights on. Any of the FAANGs "keeping the lights on" will probably keep them in the Fortune 500 for decades at this point.
- sidibe 5y agoIt depends if their infrastructure is a mess, which it probably is because it's the oldest and biggest public cloud. In that case if they are having high turnover and it means no one really understands a lot of nuances that have snuck in to their systems over time, internal implosion can lead to catastrophe eventually.