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This highlights risks of extreme consolidation - even if Atlas customers were not affected it is natural for them to be concerned after announcement overwhelmin
by PeterZaitsev 3y ago
This highlights risks of extreme consolidation - even if Atlas customers were not affected it is natural for them to be concerned after announcement overwhelming web site or support channels.
More independent MongoDB DBaaS providers is what would offer true redundancy in this case, though it is highly restricted due to SSPL license change.
Hopefully FerretDB will be successful building feasible alternative
- nextworddev 3y ago“Extreme consolidation” - wait till us-East-1 goes down
- _sword 3y agoHappened in 2012 after a big thunderstorm and took most of the internet down
- PeterZaitsev 3y agoYep. Though to be fair AWS provides options for multi region availability. What did not happen (yet) is complete AWS meltdown
- rezonant 3y agoAmazon sells it cheap compared to other regions-- it's economically incentivized for us-east-1 to take out half of the Internet.
- didip 3y agoFriends don’t let friends run on us-east-1. Consolidate on us-west-1 or us-west-2 instead.
- bobnamob 3y agous-west-1 wouldn’t be my first choice either for <other_reasons>
- booi 3y agous-west-1 seems small. They routinely run out of the instance size we request and the spot market seems.. unruly
- hoofhearted 3y agoVirginia is for lovers. Ohio is for uptime.