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LOL making one db service a central point of failure, charge gold for small compute instances. Rage about needing Multi AZ, make the costs come onto the develop
by glemmaPaul 1y ago
LOL making one db service a central point of failure, charge gold for small compute instances. Rage about needing Multi AZ, make the costs come onto the developer/organization. But, now fail on a region level, so are we going to now have multi-country setup for simple small applications?
- philipallstar 1y agoJust don't buy it if you don't want it. No one is forced to buy this stuff.
- benterix 1y ago> No one is forced to buy this stuff. Actually, many companies are de facto forced to do that, for various reasons.
- philipallstar 1y agoHow so?
- jacquesm 1y agoCertification, for one. Governments will mandate 'x, y and/or z' and only the big providers are able to deliver.
- mlrtime 1y agoThat is not the same as mandating AWS, it just means certain levels of redundancy. There are no requirements to be in the cloud.
- jacquesm 1y agoNo, that's not what it means. It means that in order to be certified you have to use providers that in turn are certified or you will have to prove that you have all of your ducks in a row and that goes way beyond certain levels of redundancy, to the point that most companies just give up and use a cloud solution because they have enough headaches just getting their internal processes aligned with various certification requirements. Medical, banking, insurance to name just a couple are heavily regulated and to suggest that it 'just means certain levels of redundancy' is a very uninformed take.
- philipallstar 1y agoIt is definitely not true that only big companies can do this. It is true that every regulation added adds to the power of big companies, which explains some regulation, but it is definitely possible to do a lot of things yourself and evidence that you've done it. What's more likely for medical at least is that if you make your own app, that your customers will want to install it into their AWS/Azure instance, and so you have to support them.
- 63stack 1y agoSecurity/compliance theater for one
- philipallstar 1y agoThat's not a company being forced to, though?
- aembleton 1y agoIt is if they want to win contracts
- philipallstar 1y agoI don't think that's true. I think a company can choose to outsource that stuff to a cloud provider or not, but they can still choose.
- DrScientist 1y agoAccording to their status page the fault was in DNS lookup of the Dynamo services. Everything depends on DNS....
- Hamuko 1y agoI thought it was a pretty well-known issue that the rest of AWS depends on us-east-1 working. Basically any other AWS region can get hit by a meteor without bringing down everything else – except us-east-1.
- yellow_lead 1y agoBut it seems like only us-east-1 is down today, is that right?
- dikei 1y agoSome global services have control plane located only in `us-east-1`, without which they become read-only at best, or even fail outright. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/aws-fault-isolation-boundaries/global-services.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/aws-fault-iso...
- KettleLaugh 1y agoWe maybe distributed, but we die united...
- glemmaPaul 1y agoAWS Communist Cloud
- nyrp 1y ago>circa 2005: Score:5, Funny on Slashdot >circa 2025: grayed out on Hacker News
- herewulf 1y agoThis is not Slashdot which is quite a good thing. Not that poignant humor is not always unwelcome, IMHO.
- mannycalavera42 1y agoupvote :this
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- hangsi 1y agoDivided we stand, United we fall.
- Tuna-Fish 1y agoIt's not DNS There's no way it's DNS It was DNS