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Re:Major AWS Outage Happening by sisve on Monday October 20, 2025 @05:20AM (#45641752)
That is 100% true. You cant be fired for picking AWS... But I doubt its the best choice for most people. Sad but true
Re:Major AWS Outage Happening by dijit on Monday October 20, 2025 @05:51AM (#45642002)
Schrodingers user;

Simultaneously too confused to be able to make their own UX choices, but smart enough to understand the backend of your infrastructure enough to know why it doesn't work and excuses you for it.

Re:Major AWS Outage Happening by 1dom on Monday October 20, 2025 @05:57AM (#45642054)
The morning national TV news (BBC) was interrupted with this as breaking news, and about how many services (specifically snapchat for some reason) are down because of problems with "Amazon's Web Services, reported on DownDetector"

I liked your point though!

Re:Major AWS Outage Happening by Macha on Monday October 20, 2025 @05:55AM (#45642043)
Well, at that level of user they just know "the internet is acting up this morning"
Re:Major AWS Outage Happening by dijit on Monday October 20, 2025 @06:00AM (#45642073)
I thought we didn't like when things were "too big to fail" (like the banks being bailed out because if we didn't the entire fabric of our economy would collapse; which emboldens them to take more risks and do it again).
Re:Major AWS Outage Happening by HelloNurse on Monday October 20, 2025 @06:55AM (#45642475)
A typical manager/customer understands just enough to ask their inferiors to make their f--- cloud platform work, why haven't you fixed it yet? I need it!

In technically sophisticated organizations, this disconnect simply floats to higher levels (e.g. CEO vs. CTO rather than middle manager vs. engineer).

Re:Major AWS Outage Happening by zejn on Monday October 20, 2025 @05:31AM (#45641842)
You can't be fired, but you burn through your runway quicker. No matter which option you choose, there is some exothermic oxidative process involved.
Re:Major AWS Outage Happening by rafaelmn on Monday October 20, 2025 @05:50AM (#45641999)
AWS is smart enough to throw you a few mill credits to get you started.
Re:Major AWS Outage Happening by dijit on Monday October 20, 2025 @06:04AM (#45642102)
MILL?!

I only got €100.000 bounded to a year, then a 20% discount for spend in the next year.

(I say "only" because that certainly would be a sweeter pill, €100.000 in "free" credits is enough to make you get hooked, because you can really feel the free-ness in the moment).

Re:Major AWS Outage Happening by echoangle on Monday October 20, 2025 @06:23AM (#45642257)
Mille is thousand in Latin so they might have meant a few thousand dollars.
Re:Major AWS Outage Happening by ExoticPearTree on Monday October 20, 2025 @07:15AM (#45642621)
Every one of the big hyperscalers has a big outage from time to time.

Unless you lose a significant amount of money per minute of downtime, there is no incentive to go multicloud.

And multicloud has its own issues.

In the end, you live with the fact that your service might be down a day or two per year.

Re:Major AWS Outage Happening by firesteelrain on Monday October 20, 2025 @07:46AM (#45642825)
When we looked at this our conclusion was not multi cloud but local resiliency with cloud augmentation. We still had our own small data center
Re:Major AWS Outage Happening by ta1243 on Monday October 20, 2025 @09:23AM (#45643611)
> In the end, you live with the fact that your service might be down a day or two per year.

This is hilarious. In the 90s we used to have services which ran on machines in cupboards which would go down because the cleaner would unplug them. Even then a day or two per year would be unacceptable.

Re:Major AWS Outage Happening by brazukadev on Monday October 20, 2025 @05:35AM (#45641873)
Usually, 2 founders creating a startup can't fire each other anyway so a bad decision can still be very bad for lots of people in this forum