Sorry to jump in y'alls convo :) AWS is cheaper than the Cloud we built... I just don't think it's significant. Ours cost more because businesses/governments would pay it, not because it was optimal.
Price is beside my original point: Amazon has enjoyed decades for arbitrage. This sounds more accusatory than intended: the 'us-south-1' problem exists because it's allowed/chosen. Created in 2006!
Now, to retract that a bit: I could see technical debt/culture making this state of affairs practical, if not inevitable. Correct? No, if I was Papa Bezos I'd be incredibly upset my Supercomputer is so hamstrung. I think even the warehouses were impacted!
The real differentiator was policy/procedure. Nobody was allowed to create a service or integration with this kind of blast area. Design principles, to say the least. Fault zones and availability zones exist for a reason beyond capacity, after all.
Price is beside my original point: Amazon has enjoyed decades for arbitrage. This sounds more accusatory than intended: the 'us-south-1' problem exists because it's allowed/chosen. Created in 2006!
Now, to retract that a bit: I could see technical debt/culture making this state of affairs practical, if not inevitable. Correct? No, if I was Papa Bezos I'd be incredibly upset my Supercomputer is so hamstrung. I think even the warehouses were impacted!
The real differentiator was policy/procedure. Nobody was allowed to create a service or integration with this kind of blast area. Design principles, to say the least. Fault zones and availability zones exist for a reason beyond capacity, after all.