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They can do this without an alliance. They very intentionally choose not to do it. Every major company has moved away from having accurate status pages.
Steam has a great status page, companies like that and cloudfare will eat Alphabet's lunch in the next 17-18 years.
AWS us-east-1 outage
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"Fixed a bug that could cause [adverse behavior affecting 100% of the user base] for some users"
"some" as in "not all". I'm sure there are some tiny tiny sites that were unaffected because no one went to them during the outage.
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Does this imply Virginia is Godless?
Virginia's actual motto is "Sic semper tyrannis". What's more tyrannical than an omnipotent being that will condemn you to eternal torment if you don't worship them and follow their laws.
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#505I love that every time this happens, 100% of the services on https://status.aws.amazon.com are green.
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Cool. Now let's have a race to see who can triple their capacity the fastest. (Note: I don't use AWS, so I can actually do it)
Why would I want to triple my capacity? Most people don't need to scale to a billion users overnight.
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#507I worked at a company that hired an ex-Amazon engineer to work on some cloud projects. Whenever his projects went down, he fought tooth and nail against any suggestion to update the status page. When forced to update the status page, he'd follow up with an extremely long "post-mortem" document that was really just a long winded explanation about why the outage was someone else's fault. He later explained that in his…
It's popular to upvote this during outages, because it fits a narrative. The truth (as always) is more complex: * No, this isn't the broad culture. It's not even a blip. These are EXCEPTIONAL circumstances by extremely bad teams that - if and when found out - would be intervened dramatically. * The broad culture is blameless post-mortems. Not whose fault is it. But what was the problem and how to fix it. And one of t…
Now i guess its possible that the 1000s and 1000s of us who noticed and commented are some tiny fraction of the user base but if thats so you could at least publish a follow up like other vendors do that says something like 0.00001% of API requests failed effecting an estimated 0.001% of our users at the time.
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#509I worked at a company that hired an ex-Amazon engineer to work on some cloud projects. Whenever his projects went down, he fought tooth and nail against any suggestion to update the status page. When forced to update the status page, he'd follow up with an extremely long "post-mortem" document that was really just a long winded explanation about why the outage was someone else's fault. He later explained that in his…
It's popular to upvote this during outages, because it fits a narrative. The truth (as always) is more complex: * No, this isn't the broad culture. It's not even a blip. These are EXCEPTIONAL circumstances by extremely bad teams that - if and when found out - would be intervened dramatically. * The broad culture is blameless post-mortems. Not whose fault is it. But what was the problem and how to fix it. And one of t…