6d ago

duh-dum.

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The cloud is just someone else's computer. And that computer is busy printing AI videos of the President pooping out of a fighter jet, so now your files are inaccessible
- Can you imagine this sentence 1 year ago much less 5 years ago?
  
  The President of course being a convicted felon and rapist, Donald J Trump.
  
  One year ago? Easily.
  Five years ago? Depends on whether I was visiting 4chan at the moment.
  
  6 months ago, I would be surprised to hear this was done by the president's administration.
  
  "Oh, the deep dream stuff? Yeah, those look so trippy. What do you mean poop though? Usually it's just dogs."
If you properly divide your instances between providers and regions and use load balancing which uses a corum of 3 availability model then it can be zero downtime pretty fairly guaranteed.
People be cheap and easy tho, so 🤷‍♂️
- Yup. And I think I'll add:
  What do you mean we've blown our yearly budget in the first month.
- Dividing between providers is not what people would be doing if the resilience of cloud services were as is being memed about.
  Doing so is phenomenally expensive.
  
  Doing so is phenomenally expensive.
  It's demonstrably little more expensive than running more instances on the same provider. I only say -little- because there is a marginal administrative overhead.
- Also requires AWS to do the same thing which they sometimes don’t …
- "But we have our load balacing with 3 different AWS buckets!!!!"
I remember SLAs including 'five nines' ensurances. That meant 99.999% uptime or an allowance of 26 seconds of downtime a month. That would be unheard of nowadays because no cloud provider can ensure that they will have that uptime.
- Amazon has so much redundancy built into EC2 that I genuinely thought they’d be able to avoid this.
  
  You should plan for your app to be multi regional if it needs to be up that much.
  
  I may be mistaken, but I really could've sworn that a lot of the really strict SLA guarantees Amazon gives assume you are doing things across availability zones and/or regions. Like they're saying "we guarantee 99.999% of uptime across regions" sort of thing. Take this with a grain of salt, it's something I only half remember from a long time ago.
  
  Hardware? Yes
  Network misconfiguration? Welll...
Remember when the Internet was supposed to be decentralised for resilience?
- No, sorry, I’m not that old :P
  
  Remember: you're never too young to have a Vietnam flashback!
- Yes. Then these assholes came along...
- Back during the Rant Radio days...

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