Post #3087661
2026-04-04 00:02 UTC
@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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@ancoghlan@mastodon.social 2026-04-04 00:09
@freakboy3742@cloudisland.nz @hynek@mastodon.social @chrisjrn@social.coop See also: all other things Microsoft.
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@hynek@mastodon.social 2026-04-04 08:12
@freakboy3742@cloudisland.nz @chrisjrn@social.coop “companies ship the worst possible service they can get away with” is old news but I can see ppl who can’t deploy their apps to eventually look for alternatives. GHA is already famously so bad that there’s plenty alternatives. And as for Consumer-Amazon: dunno about ‘Straya, but thanks to Shopify I have never in my life shopped at so many non-Amazon shops w/o even setting out to do it. But these consequences take time so we have to wait & watch the world burn for a while