Comment on A single point of failure triggered the Amazon outage affecting millions
blackn1ght@feddit.uk 1 day agoBit of an over-reaction to one incident. I’d be willing to bet the uptime, reliability and scalability of AWS is significantly better than what the vast majority of in-house solutions could do. It’s absolutely not worth going back.
Millions of customers using AWS also weren’t affected - the company I work for certainly wasn’t, although some of our tools like Jira were.
DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth 1 day ago
The problem is far more pervasive than any single incident, allowing a single megacorporation to control most of the Internet is a bad idea for many reasons.
blackn1ght@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Agreed, but other cloud providers exist and it would be good if there was stronger competition in this space. But going back to self hosting is a huge step back and I think if a CTO said they were going to move from the cloud back to a self hosted solution, pretty much everyone would hate it.
DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth 1 day ago
There are still self hosted places today, not everything is cloud based.
Also, there isn't more competition largely because of Amazon so, while I agree with the sentiment that it could improve things, in practice it's a moot point.