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A single point of failure triggered the Amazon outage affecting millions (arstechnica.com)
submitted 2 days ago by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
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We need more cloud services.

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[–] DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You're right, though. AWS has far more data centers/regions. Even if a company only uses AWS, they can set up High Availability/Disaster Recovery solutions that replicate across AWS regions.

But they won't because:

  • management doesn't understand the technology, just "cloud good".
  • the experienced tech workers who do understand that you still need HADR in the cloud have all been laid off or retired.
  • redundancy costs...wait for it...money.
[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

Bingo. Which goes to my point the ire should be at the companies more than AWS. And a lot of the big companies have more than enough money to handle it, but they’re greedy. But instead everyone is focusing on AWS, saying it’s a “monopoly” and needs to be “democratized”. It’s completely misplaced outrage IMO.