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> imagine if the electricity supplier too that stance. Imagine if the cloud supplier was actually as important as the electricity supplier. But since you ment
by throw0101d 1y ago
> imagine if the electricity supplier too that stance.
Imagine if the cloud supplier was actually as important as the electricity supplier.
But since you mention it, there are instances of this and provisions for getting back up and running:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Iberian_Peninsula_blackout https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Iberian_Peninsula_blackou...
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003
- chii 1y agoand how many times have aws gone down majorly like that? I think you wouldn't be able to count it.
- throw0101d 1y ago* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Amazon_Web_Services#Outages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Amazon_Web_Service... As someone who lives in Ontario, Canada, I got hit by the 2003 grid outage, which is once in >20 years. Seems like a fairly good uptime to me. (Each electrical grid can perhaps be considered analogous to a separate cloud provider. Or perhaps, in US/CA, regions: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Electric_Reliability_Corporation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Electric_Reliab... )