Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again

Post by datavirtue » Wed, Dec 22, 2021, 2:03 PM UTC

Victerius wrote: post #179

RONROC wrote: post #154

The prevailing wisdom throughout the last couple of years was: “ditch your on-prem infrastructure and migrate to a major cloud provider” And its starting to seem like it could be something like: “ditch your on-prem infrastructure and spin up your own managed cloud” This is probably untenable for larger orgs where convenience gets the blank check treatment, but for smaller operations that can’t realize that value at s…

I'm tempted to found a startup to help businesses migrate from cloud providers to on-prem infrastructure.

Post by 2-718-281-828 » Wed, Dec 22, 2021, 2:04 PM UTC

chkhd wrote: post #176

GrumpyNl wrote: post #166

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How come they dont have power backups?

"When a fail-safe system fails, it fails by failing to fail-safe." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemantics

Post by mongrelion » Wed, Dec 22, 2021, 2:07 PM UTC

Hippocrates wrote: post #198

Every time a major cloud provider has an outage, Infra people and execs cry foul and say we need to move to . But does anyone really have an objective measure of how clouds stack up reliability-wise? I doubt it, since outages and their effects are nuanced. The other move is that they want to go multi-cloud... But I’ve been involved in enough multi-cloud initiatives to know how much time and effort those soak up, not…

Post by temptemptemp111 » Wed, Dec 22, 2021, 2:08 PM UTC

Post by pxue » Wed, Dec 22, 2021, 2:09 PM UTC

falcolas wrote: post #185

pxue wrote: post #161

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maybe except a team at google? ;)

I have a story from only a few years ago where the finance section, and a good portion of management, of Google had no idea how poor their GAE solution was for uptime, until they tried to do business critical work using software that was hosted on GAE. Uptime improved rather dramatically after that.