It's not a strawman. There's a huge difference between "AWS is down" and "customers don't know how to use AWS". For the people who use AWS correctly, they only had some degraded service, not downtime.
> It's not a strawman. There's a huge difference between "AWS is down" and "customers don't know how to use AWS".
Deploying a service to a single region is not, nor has it ever been, "customers don't know how to use AWS".
If anything, cargo culting this belief in global deployments being necessary, specially with services that have at most a regional demand, is a telltale sign a customer has no idea about what he is doing and is just mindlessly wasting money and engineering effort in something no one needs.
This blend of bad cargo cult advice sounds like a variant of microservices everywhere.
Deploying a service to a single region is not, nor has it ever been, "customers don't know how to use AWS".
If anything, cargo culting this belief in global deployments being necessary, specially with services that have at most a regional demand, is a telltale sign a customer has no idea about what he is doing and is just mindlessly wasting money and engineering effort in something no one needs.
This blend of bad cargo cult advice sounds like a variant of microservices everywhere.