Remember: the cloud is someone's else computer. When it's broken, you cannot do anything
This is fine if three nines of availability is all you need. Doesn't matter much if you prefer a big brand employee fixing things or a small brand employee. It doesn't change the outcome.
However there are a lot of things that simply cannot live with crappy three nines availability. And the only way to do better is to stop relying on any single cloud, which inevitably requires infrastructure engineers aka random devops dudes.
What you're trying to get at is this: would you rather trust your infrastructure to a large organization whose core competency it is to do so, or would you rather manage it yourself? For many companies it makes more sense to have someone else manage it because of division of labor.
If you believe you're better suited to managing your own hardware for cost or capability reasons, you should. But of the arguments in favor of that decision, pointing out that "you cannot do anything" when GCP/AWS/Azure has downtime is a pretty poor one. It's an exceptional circumstance if you're 1) able to achieve better uptime than a cloud provider, 2) at nearly the same cost (in personnel, hardware and software), and 3) while being relatively unaffected by the downtime of major cloud providers anyway.
The companies for which the calculus shifts in favor of managing their own hardware probably don't need to be told "the cloud is just someone else's computer." In contrast, most companies using a cloud provider do not have a readily available alternative because they do not have in-house talent capable of maintaining baremetal hardware (local or colocated).
I consider myself personally capable of maintaining a baremetal distributed system with high availability, because I presently do that. But for the most part I wouldn't encourage companies using a cloud provider to invest in their own infrastructure. It's usually expensive in personnel, time or both.
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I noticed problems with Reddit earlier, too.
>Edit: Nevermind, I see what you mean (on the map). I'd be interested to know too... maybe PL is a big player in their attack monitoring?
I have a static website at https://alexandreviau.net/. It sits behind AWS CloudFront. Good luck taking it down.
I'm Turkish and have been watching the news but I don't see any reason why someone correlates large websites being down with Turkey. With no explanation too.
Can you elaborate please? This is an honest question and I would like to know if my government is hacking foreign sites in retaliation for sanctions.
I could sit here and just pull out random CVEs too, with as much validity.
