Comment by jergason
9 hours ago
Most businesses are totally fine if they have a few hours of downtime. More uptime is better, but treating an outage like a disaster or an e-commerce site like a power plant is more about software engineer egos than business or customer needs.
If AWS is down, most businesses on AWS are also down, and it’s mostly fine for those businesses.
If an hour outage costs you on average a million dollars, you have another 8.759 billion dollars to cover for the loss...