Comment by crazygringo
1 day ago
> Failures are astonishingly, vanishingly rare
You and I must be using different sites and different clouds.
There's a reason isitdownrightnow.com exists. And why HN'ers are always complaining about service status pages being hosted on the same services.
By your logic, AWS and Azure should fail once in a millennium, yet they regularly bring down large chunks of the internet.
Literally last week: https://cyberpress.org/microsoft-azure-faces-global-outage-i...
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