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0 pointsnoobiemcfoob9y ago0 comments

Pointing at a service with 99.99% uptime and claim the outages as a reason to go elsewhere? Host it yourself and hit that same uptime target. I'll be impressed.

AWS isn't built for little static sites. It is built to host Amazon. And others likewise as big. The ability to do neat toys like this at a low cost, utilizing far more machinery than you would ever need to for such small project, is a happy byproduct.

> Meanwhile lots of good admin guys lose their jobs

Don't go all union-y on me! Frictional Unemployment is unavoidable. The reality is that services like AWS free up all those clearly intelligent (by virtue of being "good") admins to utilize their intellect elsewhere. We live in the age of the STEM shortage. If you can work a computer and can be described as "good", I won't worry for you.

FWIW, it's "nay" not "neigh"

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tomc19859y ago

> Pointing at a service with 99.99% uptime and claim the outages as a reason to go elsewhere? Host it yourself and hit that same uptime target. I'll be impressed.

Well, according to pingdom I hit 99.98% uptime with the dozen-or-so cheap little DO boxes I run for my firm's infrastructure. That's playing the dual roles of sole developer and sole support on those systems. My data pipeline collects records from hundreds of deployments worldwide, through all manner of diverse corporate IT environments. It really isn't that hard.

I'll agree with your points on frictional unemployment when the thing displacing them represents actual forward progress. AWS is a land grab, not progress.

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