Is a billion dollars worth of server lying on the ground?

Re:Is a billion dollars worth of server lying on the ground? by jopsen on Monday November 02, 2020 @07:18PM (#24974990)

Also if you build it yourself it carries risk -- each project could fail, or take extra time.

Where as buying AWS, has low risk.

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Re:Is a billion dollars worth of server lying on the ground? by crisper78 on Monday November 02, 2020 @08:36PM (#24975476)

Servers go down in AWS too, they are a colo shop with an open source services arm to implement multi tenant services of which you are one tenant yet paying for that multi tenancy service.

You may not notice it having 1 but have a few thousand. Everything goes down in AWS just like it does on normal servers, no one likes to mention that though so often its blamed on something else like software that is running on the cloud that just went down hah.

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Re:Is a billion dollars worth of server lying on the ground? by ttul on Monday November 02, 2020 @08:53PM (#24975578)

Okay fair comment. But in terms of the entire data center being unreachable, that has never happened - not in ten years.

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Re:Is a billion dollars worth of server lying on the ground? by ttul on Monday November 02, 2020 @08:28PM (#24975424)

Yes. And risk here means my business fails potentially. AWS has never once had an outage in the region we operate in.

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