AWS us-east-1 outage
I think now is a good time to reiterate the danger of companies just throwing all of their operational resilience and sustainability over the wall and trusting someone else with their entire existence. It&#x27;s wild to me that so many high performing businesses simply don&#x27;t have a plan for when the cloud goes down. Some of my contacts are telling me that these outages have teams of thousands of people completely prevented from working and tens of million dollars of profit are simply vanishing since the start of the outage this morning. And now institutions like government and banks are throwing their entire capability into the cloud with no recourse or recovery plan. It seems bad now but I wonder how much worse it might be when no one actually has access to money because all financial traffic is going through AWS and it goes down.<p>We are incredibly blind to just trust just 3 cloud providers with the operational success of basically everything we do.<p>Why hasn&#x27;t the industry come up with an alternative?