We need more cloud services.

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[–] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Bit of an over-reaction to one incident. I'd be willing to bet the uptime, reliability and scalability of AWS is significantly better than what the vast majority of in-house solutions could do. It's absolutely not worth going back.

Millions of customers using AWS also weren't affected - the company I work for certainly wasn't, although some of our tools like Jira were.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (2 children)

    The problem is far more pervasive than any single incident, allowing a single megacorporation to control most of the Internet is a bad idea for many reasons. The Internet is supposed to be decentralized, it was even designed to withstand a nuclear war with that principal in mind. Even with a robust, distributed network with redundant backups, if it's still all controlled by one company, that is still a very precarious situation.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Agreed, but other cloud providers exist and it would be good if there was stronger competition in this space. But going back to self hosting is a huge step back and I think if a CTO said they were going to move from the cloud back to a self hosted solution, pretty much everyone would hate it.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    There are still self hosted places today, not everything is cloud based.

    Also, there isn't more competition largely because of Amazon so, while I agree with the sentiment that it could improve things, in practice it's a moot point.

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