[bb88]

Apple created their own silicon. Fedex uses its own pilots. The USPS uses it's own cars.

If you're a company relying upon AWS for your business, is it okay if you're down for a day, or two while you wait for AWS to resolve it's issue?

[lostlogin]

It’s bloody annoying when all I want to do is vacuum the floor and Roomba says nope, “active AWS incident”.

[Grazester]

If all you wanted to do was vacuum the floor you would not have gotten that particular vacuum cleaner. Clearly you wanted to do more than just vacuum the floor and something like this happening should be weighed with the purchase of the vacuum.

[lostlogin]

I’ll rephrase. I wanted the floor vacuumed and I didn’t want to do it.

[bb88]

When I bought my automated sprinkler system, I got one that would continue to work if the company or the cloud went belly up.

[jasode]

>Apple created their own silicon.

Apple designs the M1. But TSMC (and possibly Samsung) actually manufacture the chips.

[bb88]

I'm pretty sure that's a difference without a distinction.

[teh_klev]

> Apple created their own silicon

Apple designed their own silicon, a third party manufactures and packages it for them.

[bb88]

Pedantic, -1.

[teh_klev]

I suggest you review this before commenting again:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[bb88]

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

You mean like that rule, pedant? It's not name calling if it's an accurate representation of one's behavior.

ped·ant /ˈpednt/: noun a person who is excessively concerned with minor details and rules or with displaying academic learning.

[jcranberry]

Most companies using AWS are tiny compared to the companies you mentioned.