[ju-st]

Yeah, it is very interesting how everyone here loves AWS. And the reasons for it seem to be (1) the "trust" in AWS, (2) the existing knowledge about AWS's API etc. and (3) that it's just not worth the time to evaluate another provider because you could spend your time growing your startup/doing something more profitable.

And these are interestingly exactly the same reasons enterprises buy IBM and Oracle.

This is actually a big pet peeve of mine :)

[zwily]

Are you saying those reasons are not valid? And why is "trust" in quotes?

[ju-st]

No! The reasons are absolutely valid. It's just interesting to see that the lean and cool startup is very similar to an established enterprise in that regard.

The trust is in quotes because I'm not sure what to think about it. Every month I see a post here about some AWS service outage but it looks like nobody is getting nervous because of this. People just wait until it is fixed. On the other hand, I have experienced that people begin to trust companies because the company advertises on TV. But AWS has earned its trust legitimately I think.

The whole concept of "confidence/trust in companies" is so important but I know so little about it.

[zwily]

Fair enough.

The reason you hear about so many AWS outages is because it's a massive service with so many users. If you build appropriately, you can have extremely good uptime built on AWS. They've earned tons of trust from their users.

[merb]

most outages only happens on a single az. which is not really hard to handle. in over 1 year we had one outage on frankfurt. and that was just a small problem which a small reboot of our machines fixed the issues. oh and that happend automatically. the problem is you need to know that failures could happen. not only in the cloud but in the cloud these failures are more easily to handle since you could just create new boxes or use multi cloud envs.