Re:Twitter ‘smytes’ customers
by mindcrime on Friday June 22, 2018 @12:14PM
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Well, I guess every company on AWS is screwed, huh?
Screwed? Maybe, maybe not. At risk? Abso-fucking-lutely. There are plenty of stories out there of companies who had their AWS accounts shut-down for some random reason, plenty of stories of AWS outages, etc. Even if Amazon does't pull a "Smyte", there's plenty of risk associated with being on (or "solely on") AWS.
By and large, anytime you are completely dependent on someone else's platform, you are increasing risk by putting your destiny in someone else's hands.
Screwed? Maybe, maybe not. At risk? Abso-fucking-lutely. There are plenty of stories out there of companies who had their AWS accounts shut-down for some random reason, plenty of stories of AWS outages, etc. Even if Amazon does't pull a "Smyte", there's plenty of risk associated with being on (or "solely on") AWS.
By and large, anytime you are completely dependent on someone else's platform, you are increasing risk by putting your destiny in someone else's hands.