Re:Ask HN: Do you find working on large distributed systems ...
by ckdarby on Saturday February 19, 2022 @01:48PM
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>So you basically saying that no matter what one should always stick to Amazon.
What I am saying is given the list of exceptions I gave the business should run/colocate their gear if they're in the exception list or those components that fall in the exception list should be moved out.
>I have my own experience that tells exactly the opposite.
You begin using AWS for your first day ever and on that day it has a tri AZ outage for S3. In this example the experience with AWS has been terrible. Zooming out though over 5 years it wouldn't look like a terrible experience at all considering outages are limited and honestly not that frequent.
What I am saying is given the list of exceptions I gave the business should run/colocate their gear if they're in the exception list or those components that fall in the exception list should be moved out.
>I have my own experience that tells exactly the opposite.
You begin using AWS for your first day ever and on that day it has a tri AZ outage for S3. In this example the experience with AWS has been terrible. Zooming out though over 5 years it wouldn't look like a terrible experience at all considering outages are limited and honestly not that frequent.