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Any customer of Heroku who didn't weigh the cost/benefit of Cloud hosting is a fool and deserves to watch their app have downtime. Cloud hosting is fantastic b

Any customer of Heroku who didn't weigh the cost/benefit of Cloud hosting is a fool and deserves to watch their app have downtime. Cloud hosting is fantastic but it's a trade off. There are so many layers of abstraction between you and the hardware that you are completely at the mercy of one, two or (more!) technical organizations, each with their own support systems and varying levels of opacity into their infrastructure. The fact that Amazon went down IS VERY interesting for a customer of Heroku. And if it isn't, than that customer is a fool for outsourcing so much of their system without even understanding the risks involved.

krosaen 14y ago
I don't know, I think heroku should provide the value proposition that - hey we have it covered, if we rely on another cloud it's on use to build in redundancy and reliability atop it so as not to burden you, the app developer who is paying us to take care of operations and scaling. What would be interesting to me about an Amazon outage being behind a heroku outage would be to keep a tally, and if heroku didn't manage to build in more reliability to be resilient to even an amazon outage in a particular region, to question whether they were a good fit.
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