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Yeah I agree the hyperbolic sentences are over the top. The only way for anyone to reliably get 100% uptime is to use two or three cloud providers or their own
by specialk 12y ago
Yeah I agree the hyperbolic sentences are over the top. The only way for anyone to reliably get 100% uptime is to use two or three cloud providers or their own dedicated boxes somewhere. Even AWS don't provide 100% uptime guarantees. Though I think the author's underlying point that good design should lead to fewer/smaller planned outages. However, his statements are over the top in the extreme.
- ctdonath 12y agoTwo days down, by a world-scale provider, is also over the top. Nobody expects 100% uptime. They also don't expect 100% down for days.
- res0nat0r 12y agoUnderstood. His main point is that no cloud provider should ever have any downtime which is idiotic and no reputable company would ever promise zero downtime.
- Rapzid 12y agoTrue story. Amazon is all about telling people to plan for failure and building around it in your architecture. Also, nearly nothing will give you 100% uptime. That's fault tolerance and almost nobody has it.