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2026-04-03 17:03 UTC

@chrisjrn@social.coop You probably mean AWS but I was telling Nils just the other day that the shopping pages on Amazon have grown flaky for the first time since I signed up in 2000 or so. It’s absolutely wild how companies throw away decades of fame and stability for.. yeah what exactly?

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@chrisjrn@social.coop 2026-04-03 17:09

@hynek@mastodon.social I suspect I meant both :)

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@freakboy3742@cloudisland.nz 2026-04-04 00:02

@hynek@mastodon.social @chrisjrn@social.coop Somewhat devils advocate though: does GitHub/AWS care? If GitHub has zero nines… and nobody cancels their account… have they made the wrong choice? And I don’t mean “hobbyist moves to forgejo” - I mean “Fortune 500 companies cancel their accounts”. Does five nines *actually* matter? Unless a paying company has QOS requirements in their contract… it doesn’t. I’m not defending this as a position. It absolutely *bites hard* that critical infrastructure is unstable, and from a personal pride as an engineer perspective, it sucks - but from a pure business perspective, it’s a simple calculus: is the cost of nines less than the cost of churn? Unless and until there’s a direct financial consequence for bad stability, I doubt we’re going to see anything change. And given Amazon is difficult to replace (not impossible, but not “just use ” trivial), incentives are especially low. “Fame” isn’t what pays the bills.

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