Ask HN: Which cloud provider to use in 2018? Azure, AWS, GCE, something else?

Re:Ask HN: Which cloud provider to use in 2018? Azure, AWS, ... by pavel_lishin on Friday March 23, 2018 @09:31AM (#16657860)

> Great examples from the last 6 months include the 40 minute outage in US-WEST-2 in September, or the several hour event in US-EAST-1 during the East Coast wind storms. Bubble gum and baling wire.

Were other non-Amazon companies impacted directly by the storms? I have no idea where Microsoft and Google cloud server farms live, but it's a bit of a stretch to say that a major weather event causing downtime is due to "bubble gum and bailing wire". You could be right - I don't know anything about their setup - but "throwaway985325" isn't exactly a trustworthy source.

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Re:Ask HN: Which cloud provider to use in 2018? Azure, AWS, ... by throwaway985325 on Friday March 23, 2018 @09:42AM (#16657965)

I work on an internal service, and my weekly metrics reflect the health of a lot of services. It's more often than not that those metrics look like a printout from a seismograph sitting on an active fault.

I don't know if other cloud providers were impacted, but I'm willing to bet they were not impacted intermittently for 6 hours.

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