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Re:Rackspace lays off 200 locals in company-wide cuts by toomuchtodo on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @06:53PM (#13594267)
> So, I just moved on to AWS. More transparency on the platform and more predictable support.

Bad news. AWS is no different. EC2, IAM, whatever will have issues for hours, AWS won't update their status board (to the point someone wrote an extension to show the "real" status [1]), etc. And this is with business support we pay for. You needed to autoscale? Better go make yourself a mojito and wait for the dust to settle.

"There is no cloud, its just someone else's computer" [2]

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/real-aws-status/ka...

[2] http://i.imgur.com/i9e6143.png

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Re:Rackspace lays off 200 locals in company-wide cuts by 0xC0DECAFE2020 on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @11:47PM (#13595836)
It's funny how people lose sight of what the 'cloud' really is. Abstractions can be self defeating in some instances.
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