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    Eeehh, you’re literally suggesting that AWS added to the general stability and dependability of the internet in general

    You have NO idea what you’re talking about

    The internet was designed to survive nuclear war, talking about being dependable) and the entire idea was (and should continue to be) that you don’t rely on a single point of failure. Traffic should automatically route around dead nodes so that everything continues to flow. Decentralisation is key.

    But of course with companies being companies and corporate doing what corporate does best (enshittify everything so that we make more monies) everything got centralized.

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      The centralization is an issue, but AWS is stable as hell. When I was first in IT, tech support, I had to explain to customers daily that, “No, your internet is fine, it’s just that particular website that’s down.”

      And the centralization wouldn’t be a thing if AWS didn’t route all IAM services through us-east-1. My Lightsail in us-west-1 was fine yesterday.

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        So your argument is that AWS centralization is good because Amazon is a good provider?

        You do understand that they’re are loads of providers out there that are perfectly stable, but that are not Amazon?

        I’ve never used it because I know how to manage a server, something you might want to expect from IT personnel that does development for companies, but there days let’s just ask Amazon todo it for us, we’re too lazy

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          Companies need hell of a lot more then virtual machines today. I dont use it personally either but would i recommend a company to buy their own hardware? No. I would say they should use AWS because they can afford it and it gives them access to hundreds of services. Its rare to see technical issues.

          The value for a company is actually enormous, to have something like that at their fingertips.

          Todays downtime is forgotten in a few days and it was a big one.

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            Who says companies need to buy their own hardware?

            We have datacenters for that, you rent the hardware one way or the other.

            I’m saying that nobody should put all their eggs in one basket because if that basket breaks, you’re all fucked.

            If you have the need for high availability then you don’t out all your servers in a single datacenter, or with a single provider

            If everyone and their mother is with one provider, you’ll first notice that said provider gets expensive pretty quick and you’ll also notice that when shit goes down that half the fucking internet follows.

            My services weren’t down, and never have been. I don’t use AWS, because I don’t need it

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      Yeah rack space was killing it! Sites NEVER went down, especially under dynamic load. Never.

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        You understand that that has nothing to do with this? So there are shitty providers out there, find a good one that is not “just amazon”