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AWS outage shows the internet relies too much on Amazon

by max23_ on 12/10/21, 3:00 AM with 9 comments

  • by dsq on 12/10/21, 6:42 AM

    Isn't this exactly the 'single point of failure' that we are always warned to guard against, whether in our coding or deployments? Yet here in our daily lives people can't get the lights on or make coffee.
  • by mgrund on 12/10/21, 7:25 AM

    There’s always more you can do to drive up availability but it comes at a cost and at some point the cost exceeds the prevented losses. There’s also no real brand damage from being down when everybody else is also down due to a common and widely accepted dependency (“nobody got fired for buying IBM”). So given the SLAs offered by cloud providers like AWS it really is the most economically feasible solution.
  • by daviddever23box on 12/10/21, 11:58 AM

    Stop using us-east-1 by default. Change my mind.
  • by johnhowardstein on 12/10/21, 11:12 AM

    Yeah, but azure is painful, so what are you going to do about it?

    Also, I had no idea there was an outage.