alt Hacker NewsThat would require AWS to actually be down a lot, and it’s not. Betting your business on AWS being flakier than whatever alternative provider you use is probably not a good idea.
That would require AWS to actually be down a lot, and it’s not. Betting your business on AWS being flakier than whatever alternative provider you use is probably not a good idea.
No it would not require that. Suppose you are one of 10 competitors. The others all use AWS.
Your system is down as often as AWS. When you are down your lost sales are shared between 10 of them. When AWS is down you get all their lost sales.
Obviously very simplified, but you get the point. There might be a huge gain in being up when others are down.
> Betting your business on AWS being flakier than whatever alternative provider you use is probably not a good idea.
You are not betting your business on it. You are betting the consequences of downtime only.
AWS does not seem to be all that high reliability out of the box. You can use multiple availability zones etc. but you can do the equivalent elsewhere.