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AWS has plenty of failed data retrievals, outages not mentioned or documented, and other shenanigans of the sort. It's a turn and burn operation tho where skill
by simfree 3y ago
AWS has plenty of failed data retrievals, outages not mentioned or documented, and other shenanigans of the sort. It's a turn and burn operation tho where skilled folk only spend a few quarters or years before moving onto other (usually more) stable tech companies.
You can hear all about this if you turn up to Harry's at 7pm on Thursdays, or at many of the other tech events in Seattle. Lots of current and ex-Amazonians out there with stories!
- nostrebored 3y agoI’ve worked at AWS, working with high hundreds of customers during my time there. I haven’t ever seen someone using a service with irrecoverable data loss or an inability to use a backup. Regardless, that wasn’t my point — the outages you mention do drive customer churn and cause sales problems. Ie AWS outages do impact revenue.
- simfree 3y agoAh, seems you missed out on the funnest shenanigans inside AWS :D These are called Fight Club issues, and are restricted access issues that don't show up for most team members. Gotta cordon off the real hairy bugs!
- ReflectedImage 3y agoI've seen a aws database segfault. Most likely due to custom aws patches.
- sroussey 3y agoI was referencing startups by and large. If you have 100 engineers or less. I expect AWS outages affect revenue. But on the score of the number of companies… very few are in a similar position of AWS.