[sean0-]

I wish articles such as this would also talk about the risk-adjusted cost of absolute data safety or provide treatment discussing the cost of ensuring the last 0.00001% of data is unconditionally guaranteed in the event of black swan events. For example, what's better for the business? Double EC2 operating costs from $100K/mo to $200K/mo or pay out $10K in credits/yr as a direct loss to the business plus whatever the reputational or regulatory cost? Sometimes you need 100%. Sometimes you don't. Not acknowledging this tradeoff makes the article very FUD'y and is a disservice to engineers who get sucked into black-and-white thinking.