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rozenmd4y ago· 3 in thread

I don't know about AWS, but I know a lot of us uptime monitoring makers use (and pay) for competitor's products to know if we're down.

itisitOP4y ago

Rightly so. My point is a company can self-audit without having to pay a competitor.

whimsicalism4y ago

I think that is inherently riskier because you never know on what axis you will have a failure and it is difficult to exclude all shared axes.

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lostlogin4y ago

Absolutely. And even if it’s cheaper to use the competition, an expensive custom solution will be found.

reaperducer4y ago· 2 in thread

AWS wouldn't monitor itself from a competitor, of course

Why not? The big tech companies use each other all the time.

For example, set up a new firewall on macOS and you can see how many times Apple pulls data from Amazon or Azure or other competitors' APIs and services.

jethro_tell4y ago

Apple is not a competitor to AWS or Azure in any way. They offer not infrastructure/platform as a service that I am aware of.

reaperducer4y ago

Apple and Amazon are competitors. Apple and Microsoft competitors.

The postulation was that Apple and Amazon weren't competitors. Not that they're not competitors in a specific niche.

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throwaway815234y ago

They have a bazillion alexa and kindle devices out there that they could monitor from, heh heh. At least let that phone-home behaviour do something useful, like notice AWS is down.

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