We probably agree but are perhaps looking at it from two different angles.
I guess I took the implication of your sharing this list of fallacies to be, "A buncha suckers got duped by all the cloud services hype."
As an actual AWS customer, I'm just sharing my perspective -- namely, that I never expected to be immune to unpredictable service outages like these, and that this is not at all a reason why I signed up for AWS. Maybe other did, but I am not personally acquainted with any of them if so.
I do slightly disagree with your assertion that building in redundancy and failover mechanism is by definition "important." Important is a relative term and is probably more meaningfully looked at from a business or cost/benefit perspective. For a company like Netflix it's clearly massively important to have a fully functioning failover plan in place. For startups like Quora, it probably suffices to have a simple service outage message.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go back to hitting refresh over and over on the AWS Status page.
I guess I took the implication of your sharing this list of fallacies to be, "A buncha suckers got duped by all the cloud services hype."
No, not at all. I'm a big advocate for cloud services, including AWS.
I do slightly disagree with your assertion that building in redundancy and failover mechanism is by definition "important." Important is a relative term and is probably more meaningfully looked at from a business or cost/benefit perspective.
True.. I was generalizing a bit, due to laziness. That and it didn't seem important - at the time - to get into all that. But yes, I agree... the importance of failover / redundancy / etc. is clearly a business decision which is related to a number of factors.
I guess I took the implication of your sharing this list of fallacies to be, "A buncha suckers got duped by all the cloud services hype."
As an actual AWS customer, I'm just sharing my perspective -- namely, that I never expected to be immune to unpredictable service outages like these, and that this is not at all a reason why I signed up for AWS. Maybe other did, but I am not personally acquainted with any of them if so.
I do slightly disagree with your assertion that building in redundancy and failover mechanism is by definition "important." Important is a relative term and is probably more meaningfully looked at from a business or cost/benefit perspective. For a company like Netflix it's clearly massively important to have a fully functioning failover plan in place. For startups like Quora, it probably suffices to have a simple service outage message.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go back to hitting refresh over and over on the AWS Status page.