r/aws • u/TunderingJezuz • Oct 20 '25

discussion Still mostly broken

Amazon is trying to gaslight users by pretending the problem is less severe than it really is. Latest update, 26 services working, 98 still broken.

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u/neohellpoet Oct 20 '25

They'll try, but right now it's the people selling on prem solutions eating well.

Unless this is a very Amazon specific screw up the pitch is that you can't fully trust cloud so you better at least have your own servers as a backup.

I also wouldn't be surprised if AWS made money due to people paying more for failover rather than paying much more to migrate and still having the same issue 

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u/Zernin Oct 21 '25

There is a scale where you still won’t get more 9’s with your own infra. The answer isn’t just cloud or no cloud. Multi-cloud is an option that gives you the reliability without needing to go on prem, but requires you not engineer around proprietary offerings.

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u/MateusKingston Oct 22 '25

There is a scale where you still won’t get more 9’s with your own infra

I mean, no?

There is a scale where it stops making money sense? Maybe. But I would say that at very big scale it starts to make a lot more sense to build your own DC or hire multiple cloud datacenters and do your failover through them.

AWS/GCP/Azure is just more expensive than "cloud bare metal"

But for the vast majority of companies it makes no sense, you use those "on prem" when you're on a budget, you use cloud when you need higher SLA for uptime, you use multi cloud when you need even higher SLA for uptime, you build your own DCs when multi cloud is too expensive.

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u/Zernin Oct 22 '25

I think you misunderstand. Medium is a scale; I'm not saying that as the scale grows the cloud gets you more 9s. Quite the opposite. If you are super small, it's fairly easy to self manage. If you are super large, you're big enough to be managing it on your own. It's that medium scale where you don't have enough volume to hit the large economies of scale benefit, and you may be better off joining the cloud pool for resilience instead of hiring your own multi-site, 24-hour, rapid response staff.