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"In my opinion, Richard Stallman wouldn't recognise terrorism if it came up and bit him on his Internet." -- Ross M. Greenberg
Moved to cloud? Now pay the stupidity tax. (Score:3)
Which is what happens when you let MBAs make decisions instead of engineers.
MBAs hear the magic words "CAPEX vs OPEX" and their tiny myopic brains turn off as do the compliance officers with wet dreams of shifting liability elsewhere.
lt all works (with ever rising costs), until it doesn't.
Re: Moved to cloud? Now pay the stupidity tax. (Score:2)
But what is the tax? These services are down and no one is blaming the companies, they just say it's an Amazon problem. No one is penalizing a company because their Internet services went down just like most of their competitors
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But what is the tax?
Decrease in traffic, which reduces revenues. Was that supposed to be a trick question?
Re: Moved to cloud? Now pay the stupidity tax. (Score:2)
Question to what extent was revenue reduced versus deferred. If 90% of their customers couldn't reach competitors either, was revenue lost or did it just happen later?
The thing is that this is terrible for all the outages to be aligned for the internet users, but for the providers, the thought that outages are likely to align with competitor outages might be a pretty solid mitigation, so long as the outage doesn't exceed what they might incur themselves. Even a longer outage common with competitors may be better than a shorter outage that *only* impacts them.
Certainly if AWS was down enough that someone could get a competitive advantage by moving it would drag on them, but if it's not *much* worse than their own outages, well there's a comfort in making sure your competitors are more likely to go down with you.