Re:Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again
by vinay_ys on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @11:08AM
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It is much easier than you think. There are well-defined standards and trained trades people and whole host of companies who make great products and provide after-sales services to do it. Every major financial services, telecom and high-precision manufacturing companies run their infra this way. It is definitely less niche than rolling your own encryption.
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Re:Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again
by nightpool on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @12:22PM
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financial services, telecom and high-precision manufacturing companies
What use does a CNC shop have for an extensive on-prem multi-DC with failover and high availability? It'd be like buying your own snowplows to make sure that the road is clear so your employees can get to work. Maybe necessary if you live in a place with very bad snowplows and no existing infrastructure, but in most places, just a waste of money.
Re:Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again
by laumars on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @11:43AM
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My analogy wasn’t saying it’s niche. It was comparing the difficulty. And yes, there are trained people (I’m one of them ;) ) but that doesn’t make it easy, cheap, nor even less error prone than using cloud services. Which was my point.
Also the reasons those companies usually run their own infra is historically down to legislation more than preference. At least that’s been the case with almost all of the companies I’ve built on prem HA systems for.