Comment by IanCal

> It's insane that they never carved out any provisions for "non big-tech".

That would be insane, and it's not true. You have to consider the risks and impacts of your service, and scale is a key part of that.

I think it's really important around this to actually talk about what's in the requirements, and if you think something that has gone through this much stuff is truly insane (rather than just a set of tradeoffs you're on the other side of) then it's worth asking if you have understood it. Maybe you have and lots of other people are extremely stupid, or maybe your understanding of it is off - if it's important to you in any way it probably makes sense to check right?