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Re:AWS us-east-1 outage by bb88 on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @04:54PM (#29478691)
Apple created their own silicon. Fedex uses its own pilots. The USPS uses it's own cars.

If you're a company relying upon AWS for your business, is it okay if you're down for a day, or two while you wait for AWS to resolve it's issue?

Re:AWS us-east-1 outage by lostlogin on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @05:08PM (#29478834)
It’s bloody annoying when all I want to do is vacuum the floor and Roomba says nope, “active AWS incident”.
Re:AWS us-east-1 outage by Grazester on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @05:22PM (#29478975)
If all you wanted to do was vacuum the floor you would not have gotten that particular vacuum cleaner. Clearly you wanted to do more than just vacuum the floor and something like this happening should be weighed with the purchase of the vacuum.
Re:AWS us-east-1 outage by lostlogin on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @05:25PM (#29479005)
I’ll rephrase. I wanted the floor vacuumed and I didn’t want to do it.
Re:AWS us-east-1 outage by bb88 on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @06:23PM (#29479472)
When I bought my automated sprinkler system, I got one that would continue to work if the company or the cloud went belly up.
Re:AWS us-east-1 outage by jasode on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @05:20PM (#29478958)
>Apple created their own silicon.

Apple designs the M1. But TSMC (and possibly Samsung) actually manufacture the chips.

Re:AWS us-east-1 outage by bb88 on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @11:47PM (#29481353)
I'm pretty sure that's a difference without a distinction.
Re:AWS us-east-1 outage by teh_klev on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @05:08PM (#29478835)
> Apple created their own silicon

Apple designed their own silicon, a third party manufactures and packages it for them.

Re:AWS us-east-1 outage by bb88 on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @11:50PM (#29481382)
Pedantic, -1.
Re:AWS us-east-1 outage by teh_klev on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @05:08AM (#29482969)
I suggest you review this before commenting again:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re:AWS us-east-1 outage by bb88 on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @11:26PM (#29493825)
> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

You mean like that rule, pedant? It's not name calling if it's an accurate representation of one's behavior.

ped·ant /ˈpednt/: noun a person who is excessively concerned with minor details and rules or with displaying academic learning.

Re:AWS us-east-1 outage by jcranberry on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @05:25PM (#29479006)
Most companies using AWS are tiny compared to the companies you mentioned.