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MrDresden • 09/04/2026 • 3 replies • view on HN

How does this compare to being beholden to a single cloud providers like AWS or Google Cloud?

Has there been a sea change in how investors view these things in general, or is it only AI?


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iainctduncan • 09/05/2026

Our clients do indeed see multi-cloud as a nice-to-have, but it costs so much more to do, and the big clouds are so trusted, that it's rare that I see it.

On the other hand, nobody trusts the big AI companies not to pull shenanigans or dramatically raise prices... or even be in business in five years.

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solid_fuel • 09/04/2026

Well the big thing that stands out in the reliability front is that AWS and Google cloud are typically stable, certainly more than 3 nines. Meanwhile openai seems to roll dice on every request to see if they’re going to return a 500 or not.

ozozozd • 09/05/2026

I can’t personally tolerate the AWS/GCP interfaces and clickops.

But in terms of reliability - uptime, product, legal - they are in a different league.

There were exactly 0 instances waking up to a product decision at AWS completely breaking your product or workflows.