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Breaking the S3 durability guarantees badly enough to get press attention would be a critical reputational hit, with the consequences going far beyond just the
by terom 5y ago
Breaking the S3 durability guarantees badly enough to get press attention would be a critical reputational hit, with the consequences going far beyond just the contractual SLA compensation for the customers.
It would still heal with time, though. There was a period after some nasty incidents where the general advice was to avoid EBS for anything critical... but that's over now.
- lbriner 5y agoWould it be critical though? Unless there are lots of alternatives at a similar availability and price-point, most people aren't just going to jump to another provider. Clouds sound largely interchangeable but you try swapping from Azure to AWS or vice-versa: for anything more than the simplest system, this would probably take 12 months+
- Nextgrid 5y ago> badly enough to get press attention would be a critical reputational hit Would it? Equifax basically had the worst possible outcome and survived it just fine.