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In all three cases all they are doing is providing a platform. The issue with the size of the outages that we’ve seen should be placed on all of the companies that are opting to use them and only them without any regards to redundancy or design.

CloudFlare - There are other CDNs out there such as Akami and CloudFront

AWS - they have multiple regions, not just us-east-1. Also there is GCP and Azure, each with multiple regions

CrowdStrike - Okay there aren’t as many EDRs that do what they do, but it’s still the SPOF basket as the others

In every case I would argue it’s the inexperience, greed and path of least resistance to use these large companies and then blame the providers when something goes wrong, rather than the companies that have chosen to use these platforms. I understand that it’s easier to blame a single entity, but that shouldn’t absolve the companies that use them from being at fault.

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[–] TheAsianDonKnots@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago (6 children)

The most frustrating part is when application developers move their “critical system” to the cloud but don’t budget for private redundant links to the cloud. Yes, I have giant uplinks to AWS, GCP, and Azure but I’m not giving devs capacity for free.

Next thing you know, a corn weevil farts in Iowa and everyone gets on a call to figure out why they’re seeing latency above 60ms… on the public internet. SMH.

[–] MotoAsh@piefed.social 6 points 1 day ago (5 children)

What? Do you work in stock scalping or day trading or something? Who the fuck is whining about millisecond fluctuations??

[–] TheAsianDonKnots@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Retail and warehouse applications. When everything was in-house application teams were used to getting 60-70ms coast to coast so their monitoring systems were built around that. Someone sold them on some bullshit cloud metrics and they want what they were sold, they don’t want to simply adjust their threshold for latency.

What they REALLY want is room on my 100G private links for free.

[–] MotoAsh@piefed.social -1 points 1 day ago

I want room on your 100G private link for free.

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