Re:The real failure rate of EBS
by dijit on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @11:36AM
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Why? They wouldn't buy it.
No offence to anyone who has drank the kool-aid with AWS, but honestly they're making a product *not* foundational infrastructure.
This might feel like a jarring point.
When you think of foundational infrastructure in the real world you think bridges and plumbing and the costs of building such things; which is stupidly high.
Yet when those things get grossly privatised they end up like Lagos, Nigeria[0].
Because there is a difference between delivering something that works most of the time, and something that works all of the time -- Major point being: one of them is obscenely profitable, and the other one might not even break even, which is why governments usually take on the cost of foundational infrastructure: They never expect to even break-even.
No offence to anyone who has drank the kool-aid with AWS, but honestly they're making a product *not* foundational infrastructure.
This might feel like a jarring point.
When you think of foundational infrastructure in the real world you think bridges and plumbing and the costs of building such things; which is stupidly high.
Yet when those things get grossly privatised they end up like Lagos, Nigeria[0].
Because there is a difference between delivering something that works most of the time, and something that works all of the time -- Major point being: one of them is obscenely profitable, and the other one might not even break even, which is why governments usually take on the cost of foundational infrastructure: They never expect to even break-even.
[0]: https://ourworld.unu.edu/en/water-privatisation-a-worldwide-...