No shit. I was DevOps at my last company and they were all in on AWS. In those 5 years we had one major outage. There was one other case of a particular service going down, forgot which one, but it mainly screwed DevOps and the db guys.
You’re talking to a bunch of young people who hate Bezos and by extension AWS. They have no idea what the internet was like before.
Personally I think the cost is outrageous, rather have my own hardware mirrored in geographically distant colos, but that doesn’t mean AWS isn’t amazing.
naught101@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Because hosting was more diverse before, so when shit happened it took out a couple of sites, not a quarter of the internet
CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 1 day ago
And? God forbid we touch grass for 6 hours a year.
AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social 1 day ago
The outage also took down people’s banks, which stopped many of them from doing things like buying groceries 💀
I don’t think saying it’s good for us “touching grass” is a good argument here when AWS hosts such a substantial portion of all online services.
CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 1 day ago
How many banks didn’t work? Which ones? You have a source? Visa and MC were good all day here in the real world in the east coast.
Sounds like you’re just trying to exaggerate around an edge case that frankly isn’t the end of the world even if it were common for 4 hours a year
tomiant@piefed.social 1 day ago
“Outages are a GOOD THING!” / FOX talking head
CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Sure that’s what I said.
Go ahead to rack space, or SAP, I’m sure you’ll have a much more reliable experience. Or just run your own. I’m sure it’ll be easy peasy and super reliable.
lengau@midwest.social 1 day ago
I touch grass every day. I want to do it on my own terms, not Amazon’s.
MajinBlayze@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I keep some potted grass by my desk so I can touch it whenever I want
undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 1 day ago
Yeah, when I can’t access my bank account the first thing I do is “touch grass.” 🥴
CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yup, I’m sure your bank would never go down on another provider. Never.
balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 1 day ago
Some of us have jobs. I mean I guess you have a job, but in your case losing network just means those pesky humans stop bothering you and go to a real therapist.
CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m a staff engineer who has been dealing with the results of SLAs before Amazon was an idea.
God forbid I have a p0 where I have to message a bunch of non technical directors it’s AWS not us. Much much worse than having to figure out and then pull in the team that pushed whatever untested shit made it’s way into production on a Friday afternoon.
Unless you’ve been responsible for a SaaS with SLAs in a b2b setting; I know more about the consequences of a provider outage than you.