No, it's not. You people are regurgitating propaganda.
You people conflate the availability of junk food with unavailability of a wealth of cheap globalized fresh food available to all but a small portion of the population that would make sultans past blush with envy.
And there is the other end where NYC, Chicago, and LA go toe to toe with some of the best food on the planet.
But yeah, we have a lot of McDonald's too so that must mean that's all we got 🙄.
He's not insulting anyone. He's describing the current political climate and a failing campaign. Everyone is looking to screech at a CEO rather than read.
Nah. I haven't had a service we use miss an SLA or cost more than it's SLO budget in 2 years.
What specific services have they missed your SLA on and what incidents were they tied to? I understand that not every team has a guy on their team to monitor that that stuff and bitch for credits, but I do, and AWS is one of our most reliable vendors.
Look the fact that AWS, Azure, and more recently Google are the only choices sucks.
But the reality is most companies and projects don't have the business case to justify multi region fail over much less vendor fail over. They are all built on single points of failures and will always have outages.
Everyone just notices it more when it's AWS. And that's a stupid reason to base decisions off of. Visa/mc was working. Reddit and Facebook were mostly working once they started routing through their multi cloud nodes. Maybe you couldn't get to your banks web app, that's on them using a single cloud with no way to route to alternate cloud nodes and services. And for them to double at best infrastructure costs, unless they are boa Chase Morgan etc, is dumb for 99.99% which is the SLA .
The world isn't ending, emergency services are working, visa/mc failed over, I was still on Reddit and slack most of the day. It wasn't the end of the world.
Anyway, I now realize I have summoned my frustrations with this entire thread and gone wildly off topic and ranted with full force at you.
I just don't think it's important that when there is a major outage on AWS/Azure/cloud flare. It was going to happen elsewhere, and you wouldn't have an excuse to tell your pm not my problem, instead of digging into your app for 2 hours to find out x portion of you very distributed vendor list failed and you still have a single point of failure. I'd rather be able to point to AWS, say shit is fucked for everyone, and if you want multi cloud it's going to cost at least 1.5x as much as we're spending 🤷♂️.
Go ahead to rack space, or SAP, I'm sure you'll have a much more reliable experience. Or just run your own. I'm sure it'll be easy peasy and super reliable.
We mitigated most of it by swapping to secondary DNS and completely taking any thing related to AWS DNS and services in useast1. If you didn't have secondary DNS and heavily reliant on AWS internal DNS this might be something they experienced.
I'm a staff engineer who has been dealing with the results of SLAs before Amazon was an idea.
God forbid I have a p0 where I have to message a bunch of non technical directors it's AWS not us. Much much worse than having to figure out and then pull in the team that pushed whatever untested shit made it's way into production on a Friday afternoon.
Unless you've been responsible for a SaaS with SLAs in a b2b setting; I know more about the consequences of a provider outage than you.
How many banks didn't work? Which ones? You have a source? Visa and MC were good all day here in the real world in the east coast.
Sounds like you're just trying to exaggerate around an edge case that frankly isn't the end of the world even if it were common for 4 hours a year
Why aren't you blaming the bank for having redundancy outside a single DC? How many banks do you know if that were out susessfully using other providers that have a higher SLO/SLA?
This isn't the reality. The spending shifts income brackets, it hasn't gone away.