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Re:New – EC2 Instances (G5) with Nvidia A10G Tensor Core GPUs by growse on Friday November 12, 2021 @03:15AM (#29197277)
When my service is down and my competitor's isn't, the customers don't care that "it's ok, it's because I chose the market leader and they're having an outage".

My customers don't have a contract with AWS. A service they're paying for is down, and what am I going to do about it?

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Re:New – EC2 Instances (G5) with Nvidia A10G Tensor Core GPUs by whatever1 on Friday November 12, 2021 @08:08AM (#29198906)
Your customers cannot sue you for reasonable downtime. Your contract always has a downtime clause, and nobody is promising 100% availability.

But they can sue you to bankruptcy if you mess up with their data. And these incidents happen way too frequently, even to big players, to ignore them.

You cannot casually say I am able to setup a Linux box myself, no need to hire experts / outsource this task to experts.

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