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> These stats are no different to S3 at all. All of this engineering and moving away from AWS and for so few gain in availability. What makes you think a gain
by rrdharan 3y ago
> These stats are no different to S3 at all. All of this engineering and moving away from AWS and for so few gain in availability.
What makes you think a gain in availability matters or is necessarily a motivation for the project?
If they can achieve the same availability at far lower cost, it’s a win for them, which is why they would (and did) do it.
- colesantiago 3y ago> What makes you think a gain in availability matters or is necessarily a motivation for the project? This isn't a win for enterprise / business / mission critical customers. Governments and public services cannot use this at all.
- CaveTech 3y agoThey can, and do.
- colesantiago 3y agoThey use AWS more than the unreliability of Dropbox.
- jazzyjackson 3y agoYou think 9-1-1 doesn't experience downtime?
- colesantiago 3y agoStrawman. Who said that emergency systems don't ever experience downtime? Orgs using mission critical systems would trust a service that has less than 5x9s. > Emergency response systems is 99.999% or “five nines” – or about five minutes and 15 seconds of downtime per year. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/achieving-five-nines-cloud-justice-public-safety/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/achieving-five-nin... I see hospitals will be using AWS and other reliable hosts to use S3 rather than Dropbox.
- jazzyjackson 3y agoHospitals have budgets too, not all of them will spring for the 5th 9
- colesantiago 3y agoAnd AWS is there for the 5th 9, not Dropbox. therefore, Dropbox is not suitable or reliable for these kind of orgs, even with this custom built system they built. One can have a custom built or an experienced IT team using AWS and achieve the same or even better availability using AWS and other providers that care about critical availability, if architected correctly. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/reliability-pillar/understanding-availability-needs.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/reliabili...
- alex_lav 3y agoThe propaganda is wild to make people believe governments and public services have even 99% uptime, let alone 99.99%.
- colesantiago 3y ago5x9s is more than possible and has been done. not propaganda, don't know what you've been reading.
- alex_lav 3y agoYes 5x9s is possible. No, governments and utilities services do not keep 5x9s.