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As bad as this article makes AWS sound, it's actually the reason you should go with AWS over say Azure or GCP; when AWS goes down, its owners actually feel the pain with you, Microsoft and Google run their own stuff elsewhere...
Office 365, Teams, Dynamics, xcloud, xbox live - they all run on Azure.
Check out the Amazon Flex Drivers subreddit[0], there are tons of people saying they were paid for the day of deliveries without delivering any packages and told to go home. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/AmazonFlexDrivers/comments/rb3ggn/i...
I've seen mention of a major cable tv operator/last-mile residential ISP that had their entire field-tech dispatch system go down (based on a web gui https app that people can use on their phones) because it's hosted in AWS.
This is the future. AWS has an outage and your car won't work.
As bad as this article makes AWS sound, it's actually the reason you should go with AWS over say Azure or GCP; when AWS goes down, its owners actually feel the pain with you, Microsoft and Google run their own stuff elsewhere...
> Microsoft and Google run their own stuff elsewhere... That is simply not true. https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-moves-closer-to-runn...
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Region outages happen, which is why the guidance is to build in multiple regions, but even Amazon sometimes doesn't take their own advice. Sometimes the reason is good, sometimes it isn't.
I thought the guidance was to be multi-AZ, as an AZ is the failure boundary?
I've seen mention of a major cable tv operator/last-mile residential ISP that had their entire field-tech dispatch system go down (based on a web gui https app that people can use on their phones) because it's hosted in AWS.
My friend lives in very cold Alaska. She has an app on her car that lets her remotely warm her car, which is a requirement before driving because it's so cold. The AWS outage meant her phone couldn't talk to her car. She was 20 mins late to work because of that. This is the future. AWS has an outage and your car won't work.
Check out the Amazon Flex Drivers subreddit[0], there are tons of people saying they were paid for the day of deliveries without delivering any packages and told to go home. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/AmazonFlexDrivers/comments/rb3ggn/i...
What's worse, though, is that this also implies that even if an outage is localized to a particular region, data for deliveries to that region isn't multihomed, so you can't just failover flex app service to another region and keep delivering. For a service that lives and dies on being able to deliver everything faster than everyone else... that seems like a massive oversight... but also completely in-character for Amazon.
As bad as this article makes AWS sound, it's actually the reason you should go with AWS over say Azure or GCP; when AWS goes down, its owners actually feel the pain with you, Microsoft and Google run their own stuff elsewhere...
Check out the Amazon Flex Drivers subreddit[0], there are tons of people saying they were paid for the day of deliveries without delivering any packages and told to go home. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/AmazonFlexDrivers/comments/rb3ggn/i...
Wouldn't surprise me. I mean, DSPs wouldn't be able to scan packages to pick them up without being able to access the flex app, so unless there's a procedure in place to allow packages to be picked up and manually marked as having been picked up... they wouldn't be able to do anything. Moreover, even if they could pick anything up, they wouldn't have any way to navigate, drop packages off, snap photos, and otherwise…
Those Increasing error rates with some customers affected... /s All green https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29473630