Ask HN: Is S3 down?

Re:Ask HN: Is S3 down? by snackai on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @08:07PM (#13760004)

What indeed is bad taste is your choice of Google Cloud over AWS. No I really like GCP, use it at core of many apps, but if people really want a decentralized web we need to use more than one provider. Don't "convert". Use booth, redundancy ffs.

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Re:Ask HN: Is S3 down? by kiallmacinnes on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @04:02AM (#13762358)

Pity I can't upvote more than once! :)

This whole idea of being angry at a vendor for deprecating something with 1yr notice is just ridiculous!

People need to realize they are choosing lock-in, and are choosing the risk of deprecation every time they decide to use a cloud service with no drop in competition/open source/etc.

Own your choices people, don't blame others...

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Re:Ask HN: Is S3 down? by unclebucknasty on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @10:57AM (#13764695)

Sounds great on paper, but this is infrastructure level stuff with real world constraints.

The expectation of stability beyond a year is certainly not unreasonable when you're asking people to build their businesses/infrastructure on your platform.

And, building redundancy across providers can be impractical, owed to learning curve, cost duplication, higher outbound bandwidth costs, effort duplication, solution complexity, etc.

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Re:Ask HN: Is S3 down? by adjkant on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @01:03AM (#13761595)

What's the point of decentralizing by putting 50% on one, 50% on the other, and no overlap of the groups? You used the word redundancy, but who is willing to actually do that true redundancy?

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