One of the hands down most sobering conversations I’ve ever had was with a bunch of Very Savvy Investment Bankers about what exactly a total failure of us-east-1 would look like economically.
The *best case* outcomes closely resembled a global depression.
The *best case* outcomes closely resembled a global depression.
https://twitter.com/mattblaze/status/1445397521950519311
You want to talk five nines?
That’s comfortably within their probability models for “a US civil war.” They’ve drawn up maps that show likely sides for such an event and they plan accordingly.
That’s comfortably within their probability models for “a US civil war.” They’ve drawn up maps that show likely sides for such an event and they plan accordingly.
These people get paid significantly more than most engineers do to consider risk.
This is why you’ll not find even the most die-hard all-in cloud customer who’s publicly traded who doesn’t have “rehydrate the business” level backups either on-prem or in another provider.
This is why you’ll not find even the most die-hard all-in cloud customer who’s publicly traded who doesn’t have “rehydrate the business” level backups either on-prem or in another provider.
I actively wonder if anyone at AWS has FULLY mapped the dependencies flowing through us-east-1 for other regions. There are many publicly known ones, but distributed systems are tricksy.
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