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[โ€“] PracticalFail@feddit.org 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Hyperscalers always boast about uptime, fail over, resilience, etc etc. The thing is, the majority of customers using the hyper scalers as is actually do not get those guaranteed at all.
If really wanted to have them, you'd need to pay a hefty premium contractually as well as on how your infra is managed, effectively tripling or more your infra cost, not accounting for additional cost for good SLA response times, getting access to real knowledgeable support staff, ...

[โ€“] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 16 hours ago

It's mostly an architectural failure. Only one of the Amazon outages in the past decade was truly platform-wide. If you stood up VM's in US-West, Singapore and Ireland, stood up dedicated HA storage clusters in each zone, you'd be sitting at 5x9s.

You just really need to stay out of managed services, the upside them is you can stand up HA/FT in any provider.

[โ€“] LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago

I think I wasn't specific enough. Uptime being availability of the software or service to the government employees that use it.