Cloud Provider Outages

Have you seen what happens when AWS goes down? It does, and will happen. Therefore by your measure it and all the startups that use it are naive and dangerous.

Single point of failure well not single but we've seen AWS disrupted across many regions before.

Id rather think its a failure in planning.From AWSs playbook the conventional wisdom is that things fail all the time and you have to plan for these eventualities.See the Netflix models and Googles multihoming approach to spreading the service offering.Its always going to be the case that a cloud provider can fall over however if you are simultaneously running on different providers , all you have to worry about is the speed of rerouting traffic to your still operational site.Short of the entire

This is the right answer, I recall studying for the solutions architect professional certification and reading this countless times: outages will happen and you should plan for them by using multi-region if you care about downtime.It's not AWS fault here, it's the companies', which assume that it will never be down. In-house servers also have outages, it's a very naive assumption to think that it'd be all better if all of those services were using their own servers.<p

This happens in AWS too. In the cloud you have to assume nodes will go down and not have it be a disaster if one fails.

Didn't people also say the same thing about AWS a while back when that had a downtime? I guess the internet has multiple "Single-Point-Of-Failure"s.

This is what I call "fool's availability": reducing single points of failure (one cloud provider) without adding any actual redundancy.If you removed AWS/GCP/Azure/etc and just had 100 small providers scattered all over, the result would be hundreds of outages throughout the year, as opposed to one big outage every other year [in one region]. AWS is already way more reliable than any other provider.The real problem here is that companies that use AWS are moron

AWS has amazing marketing the truth of the matter is AWS Region has worse downtime than a single top tier DC. Mainly due to nightmarish complexity of their control layer. They had outages that lasted many hours in a row multiple times. You need to carefully separate marketing claims from operational reality and actual track record. When US East has major issues there is not enough spare capacity to spin up everything that was running there in other regions.

Do they have more outages than AWS or GCP?

We might have bigger problems if AWS goes down