[mannyv]

What this outage teaches you is that when a third party vendor fails and the internet breaks you can point the finger at them with no issues.

If your shit breaks and everyone else's shit is still working that's a problem.

[skeezyjefferson]

> you can point the finger at them with no issues.

yeah sure, if your business is one of the 500 startups on HN creating inane shit like a notes app or a calendar, but outages can affect genuine companies that people rely on

[iso1631]

I've been involved in public outages (i.e. major newspapers wrote articles about it) on one more than one occasion due to an outage, one was nearly 5 minutes long, the other only 20 seconds, both were terrible.

[iso1631]

I learned that with crowdstrike. It completely changed my understanding of what's important for C-Suite and C-Suite wannabes that want to be in middle management

[toddgardner]

I tend to sell to a wide variety of customers. They tend not to give a crap if a cloud provider is down, its still our problem to make it right.

[dylan604]

any company offering services with SLA that does not have this as a caveat is just crazy to me. "we guarantee our services will be up and running as long as the 3rd party services we run on top of are running."