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Re:AWS is 10x slower than a dedicated server for the same pr... by bjourne on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @04:09AM (#46055623)
What prevents an EC2 instance from going down in exactly the same way? Other hosting providers offer automatic backup too - it's not an AWS exclusive feature.
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Re:AWS is 10x slower than a dedicated server for the same pr... by aurareturn on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @04:13AM (#46055652)
Nothing. It's just that I'm not the one responsible to fix it at 3am.
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Re:AWS is 10x slower than a dedicated server for the same pr... by bjourne on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @06:14AM (#46056284)
Then who is responsible to fix it?
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Re:AWS is 10x slower than a dedicated server for the same pr... by aurareturn on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @10:58AM (#46058711)
AWS if it's AWS' fault.
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Re:AWS is 10x slower than a dedicated server for the same pr... by bjourne on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @12:07PM (#46059671)
You do realize that a server can "go down" for many other reasons than "the intern pulled the plug on it", right?
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Re:AWS is 10x slower than a dedicated server for the same pr... by gizzlon on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @06:41AM (#46056428)
So if you app enters a crash-loop and fails to start an AWS engineer comes in and fixes it? Because that has not been my experience..

The truth is that there's still a lot of things you have to handle, including cloud bugs and problems. And other problems you don't have to think about anymore, especially with fully managed, high-level PaaS- like services.

I ran a cloud backend service for a startup with users, using manged services, and we still had an on-call team. The cloud is not magic.

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