Amazon packages pile up after AWS outage spawns delivery havoc

Re:Amazon packages pile up after AWS outage spawns delivery ... by Spooky23 on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @10:14PM (#29480902)

People get slagged on for not having inter-region redundancy. But unless your business model can accommodate that, you’re introducing another failure domain and alot of money for duplicative infrastructure, network fees, etc.

For many use cases, it’s acceptable to shrug and blame AWS for a failure. It’s harder when your high availability solution fails independently, which they almost always do more than US-East-1

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Re:Amazon packages pile up after AWS outage spawns delivery ... by phamilton on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @01:01AM (#29481725)

If your site goes down while everyone else's goes down, it's weirdly forgivable.

And being the only one up doesn't win as many market cred points and you'd think.

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Re:Amazon packages pile up after AWS outage spawns delivery ... by Spooky23 on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @08:29AM (#29484436)

Exactly. Often people want the perception of reliability.

For many services, it makes more sense to make it reliable than not. For other services, it makes more sense to think about the engineering of the solution in the field.

Example: McDonald’s product images on kiosks are apparently in S3 and not cached locally. Seems like a dumb idea to me, but I wouldn’t try to build a more reliable cloud storage backend to control that risk.

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