doug_neumann

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   by doug_neumann 6y ago

   We need read-access to your production environment to survey your infrastructure. Then, depending on the services you're using, we need the ability to backup data, share it with your recovery environment, and cleanup old backups. We
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   by doug_neumann 6y ago

   Thanks, we really do appreciate the feedback. We're gonna run some tests on this.
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   by doug_neumann 6y ago

   Well, I'd assert that every system fails eventually. And it's a pretty common practice that you deal with these failures by implementing a redundant system that can take over in case of a failure. Think about drives in a drive a
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   by doug_neumann 6y ago

   Oops! Fixed that last night and then overwrote the fix with my next deploy. There's a version control lesson in there for me. It's fixed now.
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   by doug_neumann 6y ago

   Our service runs multi-region active across 3 regions. We can survive a 2 region outage and still operate successfully.
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   by doug_neumann 6y ago

   Thanks, we really appreciate the support.
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   by doug_neumann 6y ago

   We have done a couple of cross-region and cross-account migrations in recent months. It's the same technology but with a different business model. Happy to chat with you about it if you're curious.
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   by doug_neumann 6y ago

   Just to be clear, our solution is about failing over all of your environment to another region. So in our case, A, B, & C would all be coming up together from snapshots in that other region. But there are still consistency concerns as
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   by doug_neumann 6y ago

   Okay, thanks for the feedback, we'll definitely spend some time talking about it.
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    by doug_neumann 6y ago

    Spot-on with the multi-cloud story. But we don't plan to wait a few years :-).
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    by doug_neumann 6y ago

    I like to think our vision is bigger than that. Amazon offers a lot of building blocks. We're assembling those blocks into a solution so that AWS customers don't have to assemble the blocks themselves. As Amazon changes and enh
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    by doug_neumann 6y ago

    Gotcha. I sure hope that NDA'd response is "we're about to unleash 'Cognito2' that rights all the wrongs of the current Cognito."
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    by doug_neumann 6y ago

    Have they ever given you a response? Cognito has so much unrealized potential...
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    by doug_neumann 6y ago

    Not yet, but they're on the near-term roadmap. We've helped customers manually setup bucket replication for S3 when they've needed it. The plan is to eventually automate that, including backfilling existing objects as needed.
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