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Re:AWS Multiple Services Down in us-east-1 by raincole on Monday October 20, 2025 @06:53AM (#45642464)
Most companies just aren't important enough to worry about "AWS never come back up." Planning for this case is just like planning for a terrorist blowing up your entire office. If you're the Pentagon sure you'd better have a plan for that. But most companies are not the Pentagon.
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Re:AWS Multiple Services Down in us-east-1 by Frieren on Monday October 20, 2025 @07:14AM (#45642603)
> Most companies just aren't important enough to worry about "AWS never come back up."

But a large enough of "not too big to fail" companies become a too big to fail event. Too many medium sized companies have a total dependency on AWS or Google or Microsoft, if not several at the same time.

We live in a increasingly fragile society, one step closer to critical failure because big tech is not regulated in the same way than other infrastructure.

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Re:AWS Multiple Services Down in us-east-1 by raincole on Monday October 20, 2025 @07:17AM (#45642632)
Well I agree. I kinda think the AI apocalypse would not be like a skynet killing us, but a malware be patched onto all the Tesla and causes one million crashes tomorrow morning.
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Re:AWS Multiple Services Down in us-east-1 by swader999 on Monday October 20, 2025 @07:55AM (#45642891)
Battery fires.
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Re:AWS Multiple Services Down in us-east-1 by coffeebeqn on Monday October 20, 2025 @11:32AM (#45645095)
Many have a hard dependency on AWS && Google && Microsoft!
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Re:AWS Multiple Services Down in us-east-1 by paulddraper on Monday October 20, 2025 @09:22AM (#45643598)
Exactly.

And FWIW, "AWS is down"....only one region (out of 36) of AWS is down.

You can do the multi-region failover, though that's still possibly overkill for most.

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