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Not really, not anything like what you're describing.

12 outages since 2011, and none of them are anything like what you're describing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Amazon_Web_Service...



We've moved from on-prem to AWS fully and we see random issues all the time while their status page shows all green, so I feel you probably have a small amount of resources in use with them or something, because what you're saying doesn't jive with what we see daily. I see you've also copy-pasted your response to other comments too, so I'll do the same with my response.


I don't feel like copy/pasting all of our comments to each other, so I'd appreciate it if you didn't do that, thanks.


Then don't do it yourself. You're dead set on ignoring people whose experience is different than yours, wrapping yourself in an echo chamber of sorts and telling others they are wrong.


I'm not dead set on anything, I'm trying to have conversations with multiple people, not create an immutable record.

And I don't think you know what an echo chamber is if you think one person can create one alone...


This is not about outages. There are many more things that can go wrong besides outages.


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How long have you been working in tech? Just curious.

You sound like someone who hasn't had much real world experience and thinks AWS or whatever is the best thing because it's the only thing you know.


You may want to ask the OP how much time she/he has been working at Amazon instead.


Long enough to know that some dinosaurs refuse to learn anything new (read: AWS) and will bend over backwards to try and keep themselves relevant.


I guess it can't be proved that this guy is a shill for AWS.

But this kind of toxic fanatism(yet trying to sound logical) is just harmful for the HN community.

dang: Can this kind of behavior be punished?


Bro, what're you so upset about in this thread? That people had different experiences than you with AWS..?


I'm not upset, I'm simply pointing out that AWS isn't the problem in any of these examples, it's the various commenter's lack of understanding about how to work in AWS that's caused these problems.

I don't think anyone is actually upset, do you? I certainly hope I haven't upset anyone... :/


When your hammer snaps in half, you don't blame yourself for not using two hammers.

When the tool breaks under correct use, criticize the tool. Maybe the user should also have redundancy. The tool is still failing!


This analogy is what snapped in half, not the hammer. It's more like if your hammer says right on it, "YOU NEED A SECOND HAMMER" and this is true of all hammers, it's still not the hammer's fault you didn't bring a second hammer.


And you're in other threads complaining that the people that had five hammers were still doing it wrong, that all the outages they report are fake somehow...

Even when you're supposed to have redundancy, there are still certain failure rates that are acceptable and some that are not. And redundancy doesn't solve every problem either.


What? No I'm not. Literally no where has anyone said they've built a system with redundancies as recommended by AWS and still had problems.

Of course there are unacceptable failure rates. AWS doesn't have them, and pretending like they do is simply lying to yourself to protect your own ego.




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