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That is 100% true. You cant be fired for picking AWS... But I doubt its the best choice for most people. Sad but true

by sisve 1y ago

zejn 1y ago
You can't be fired, but you burn through your runway quicker. No matter which option you choose, there is some exothermic oxidative process involved.
- rafaelmn 1y ago
  AWS is smart enough to throw you a few mill credits to get you started.
  - dijit 1y ago
    MILL?! I only got €100.000 bounded to a year, then a 20% discount for spend in the next year. (I say "only" because that certainly would be a sweeter pill, €100.000 in "free" credits is enough to make you get hooked, because you can really feel the free-ness in the moment).
    - echoangle 1y ago
      Mille is thousand in Latin so they might have meant a few thousand dollars.
brazukadev 1y ago
Usually, 2 founders creating a startup can't fire each other anyway so a bad decision can still be very bad for lots of people in this forum
dijit 1y ago
Schrodingers user; Simultaneously too confused to be able to make their own UX choices, but smart enough to understand the backend of your infrastructure enough to know why it doesn't work and excuses you for it.
- Macha 1y ago
  Well, at that level of user they just know "the internet is acting up this morning"
  - dijit 1y ago
    I thought we didn't like when things were "too big to fail" (like the banks being bailed out because if we didn't the entire fabric of our economy would collapse; which emboldens them to take more risks and do it again).
- 1dom 1y ago
  The morning national TV news (BBC) was interrupted with this as breaking news, and about how many services (specifically snapchat for some reason) are down because of problems with "Amazon's Web Services, reported on DownDetector" I liked your point though!
- HelloNurse 1y ago
  A typical manager/customer understands just enough to ask their inferiors to make their f--- cloud platform work, why haven't you fixed it yet? I need it! In technically sophisticated organizations, this disconnect simply floats to higher levels (e.g. CEO vs. CTO rather than middle manager vs. engineer).
ExoticPearTree 1y ago
Every one of the big hyperscalers has a big outage from time to time. Unless you lose a significant amount of money per minute of downtime, there is no incentive to go multicloud. And multicloud has its own issues. In the end, you live with the fact that your service might be down a day or two per year.
- firesteelrain 1y ago
  When we looked at this our conclusion was not multi cloud but local resiliency with cloud augmentation. We still had our own small data center
- ta1243 1y ago
  > In the end, you live with the fact that your service might be down a day or two per year. This is hilarious. In the 90s we used to have services which ran on machines in cupboards which would go down because the cleaner would unplug them. Even then a day or two per year would be unacceptable.

That is 100% true. You cant be fired for picking AWS... But I doubt its the best choice for most people. Sad but true

by sisve 1y ago

That is 100% true. You cant be fired for picking AWS... But I doubt its the best choice for most people. Sad but true

zejn 1y ago

You can't be fired, but you burn through your runway quicker. No matter which option you choose, there is some exothermic oxidative process involved.

rafaelmn 1y ago
AWS is smart enough to throw you a few mill credits to get you started.
- dijit 1y ago
  MILL?! I only got €100.000 bounded to a year, then a 20% discount for spend in the next year. (I say "only" because that certainly would be a sweeter pill, €100.000 in "free" credits is enough to make you get hooked, because you can really feel the free-ness in the moment).
  - echoangle 1y ago
    Mille is thousand in Latin so they might have meant a few thousand dollars.

brazukadev 1y ago

Usually, 2 founders creating a startup can't fire each other anyway so a bad decision can still be very bad for lots of people in this forum

dijit 1y ago

Schrodingers user; Simultaneously too confused to be able to make their own UX choices, but smart enough to understand the backend of your infrastructure enough to know why it doesn't work and excuses you for it.

Macha 1y ago
Well, at that level of user they just know "the internet is acting up this morning"
- dijit 1y ago
  I thought we didn't like when things were "too big to fail" (like the banks being bailed out because if we didn't the entire fabric of our economy would collapse; which emboldens them to take more risks and do it again).
1dom 1y ago
The morning national TV news (BBC) was interrupted with this as breaking news, and about how many services (specifically snapchat for some reason) are down because of problems with "Amazon's Web Services, reported on DownDetector" I liked your point though!
HelloNurse 1y ago
A typical manager/customer understands just enough to ask their inferiors to make their f--- cloud platform work, why haven't you fixed it yet? I need it! In technically sophisticated organizations, this disconnect simply floats to higher levels (e.g. CEO vs. CTO rather than middle manager vs. engineer).

ExoticPearTree 1y ago

Every one of the big hyperscalers has a big outage from time to time. Unless you lose a significant amount of money per minute of downtime, there is no incentive to go multicloud. And multicloud has its own issues. In the end, you live with the fact that your service might be down a day or two per year.

firesteelrain 1y ago
When we looked at this our conclusion was not multi cloud but local resiliency with cloud augmentation. We still had our own small data center
ta1243 1y ago
> In the end, you live with the fact that your service might be down a day or two per year. This is hilarious. In the 90s we used to have services which ran on machines in cupboards which would go down because the cleaner would unplug them. Even then a day or two per year would be unacceptable.