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Re: Tell HN: AWS connectivity issues, but health dashboard says everything fine

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post #28

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AWS is the 800 pound gorilla in the cloud space. Are any of the other cloud providers better with customer honesty?

Also good luck trying to convince your company to migrate to another cloud provider over, say, implementing multi-region strategy, which you should have been doing in the first place.

Highlight the lack of transparency on reporting outages and that's a start. If your MPLS or ISP provider operated in the save way. The company wouldn't accept it

Re: Tell HN: AWS connectivity issues, but health dashboard says everything fine

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also good luck trying to convince your company to migrate to another cloud provider over, say, implementing multi-region strategy, which you should have been doing in the first place.

Highlight the lack of transparency on reporting outages and that's a start. If your MPLS or ISP provider operated in the save way. The company wouldn't accept it

My company is not going to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars or more, and months or even years of effort, and add additional constraints to the given pool of candidates we are hiring for, to migrate to GCP or Azure or DigitalOcean or Hetzner or wherever is considered more trendy than AWS right now due to "a lack of transparency" lmao. I would look completely incompetent to even suggest the idea to anyone internally.

Re: Tell HN: AWS connectivity issues, but health dashboard says everything fine

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post #33

It only turns yellow if the datacenter gets flooded by lava. Red is probably a tactical nuke.

I read here on HN before that yellow requires a manual signature on a paper from a higher manager. Because such fault affects their compensation and decreases stock value. Red requires signature from C-level. It's not automated at all, almost worthless dashboard.

Re: Tell HN: AWS connectivity issues, but health dashboard says everything fine

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post #27

Keep in mind AWS status dashboard solely reflects the product owning managers discretion. And the number of yellow ("green I" if you're old enough) is definitely a material input to PIP :)

Correct. No matter how down AWS is, their status page will only show a disruption if a manager approves showing a disruption. There is nothing automated to display the status, so the status page is mostly worthless except for whatever AWS admits is down.

All this compounded by the fact AWS builds on AWS. So there can be a disruption of a service, but it's not really the service's fault -- it's a upstream failure.

Re: Tell HN: AWS connectivity issues, but health dashboard says everything fine

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post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

AWS is the 800 pound gorilla in the cloud space. Are any of the other cloud providers better with customer honesty?

Didn't say you have to go "cloud" rent hardware in a DC and run that yourself. Or use a VPS I mean the cloud is just "Other people's hardware" and I'd thank you to not insult gorillas like that by comparing them to Amazon.

this just bring whole load of new expenses on staffing physical locations creates more problem than it solves
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