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So, how many people will actually switch their setups to multi-cloud as a consequence of this? How many will move over to self-hosting? Or will they just do a p

So, how many people will actually switch their setups to multi-cloud as a consequence of this? How many will move over to self-hosting? Or will they just do a post-incident report, wave hands around and do nothing? Because I think it's very much the same way as it is with Cloudflare - while the large vendors aren't always openly hostile, we can just smile and hope that they don't get too keen on reminding us that they're holding us hostage. I don't see that changing anytime soon. I've personally also used Hetzner, Contabo, Scaleway, Vultr, DigitalOcean, Time4VPS and some other platforms, but when people couple their setups to CF/AWS/GCP/Azure, typically that coupling is hard to get rid of and doing so is hard to justify.

1970-01-01 1y ago
GCP and Azure should be running a 10% sale/discount (Coupon code: RAINYDAY) for new accounts during the week of an AWS outage. The bean counters would take note.
SkyPuncher 1y ago
For most companies, I suspect this will actually re-affirm _not_ switching to multi-cloud. Lots of businesses who will be completely forgotten as having an outage today because all of their customers were dealing with their own outages and outages in dozens of other providers. Obviously, that doesn't fly for everyone.
jimbokun 1y ago
Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM… …no, Microsoft… …no, AWS.