TBH you're still subject to the same risk profile of single-source outage, you just (theoretically) have more control on the state of your single site. If you build a true multi-region architecture that doesn't hard-code its endpoints to region specific infra, it's pretty straightforward to recover.
The big advantage IaaS gives is that you can burst/scale with zero opportunity cost, whereas in your own DC you're paying for that hardware for its lifespan. But if your operational model is pretty steady state, then yeah cloud is just paying for someone else's margin. If you don't want to deal with physical infra management it's a great deal - but yeah my NAS can't be beat by cloud in terms of price per GB or cost of IO operations, even including cost of power
The AWS outage (simplified) in Haiku form:
It's not DNS
There's no way it's DNS
It was DNS
And this is a pretty good and easy to follow explainer, but a DNS failure caused dynamoDB to become unreachable in us-east-1, which made the shit hit the fan
Sweatergawd more enterprises should take multiregion architecture more seriously. At least a pilot light backup would let you hit a 30 minute RTO to just fail over from use1
Holy shit the CO of US SOUTHCOMM prosecuting the Carribean drug interdiction mission just resigned
Pretty significant indicator that he resigned a year into a 3 year posting that's the pinnacle of a career. I didn't know that SecDef activated special forces assets to do the strikes after the Admiral refused on the basis of them not being legal combatants
this is quite literally unconstitutional, so if you're cool with tearing that document up it's all a bit of a moot point. Congress controls taxation and spending. In the constitution, at least.
https://www.wsj.com/business/ballmer-clippers-leonard-sanberg-aspiration-49924b19?mod=mhp
This is pretty close to a smoking gun from WSJ, especially if Clippers execs were pushing this on Sanberg
I'm definitely not arguing that this large complex failure is solely one person's fault. That's ridiculous. But of all the issues, Arch's sad QB performances cause the most secondary and tertiary problems.
The o-line gets more heat because they can sell out to stop the run with very little risk. Because Arch has dogshit accuracy.
Play calling is forced to be more vanilla and predictable to have a reasonable chance of getting positive yards. Because Arch has dogshit accuracy.
It's not SOLELY his fault that the team is playing like hammered dogshit on offense, but he's high up the totem pole of shit flowing downhill. All the other units don't really make a shit while Arch is shitting all over them.
Sure if Arch stops shitting, the team still has big issues. But that IF is entirely theoretical and a moot point at this time in the season
That's like Mrs Lincoln saying the "play was fine except for the interruption". Accuracy is one of THE MOST important traits for a quarterback and without it, you should not be getting paid more than twice what Joe fuckin Flacco is getting paid
https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-news-10-19-2025-f3d95cf76018541ff824853d1bcd3356
Good lord the peace deal didn't even last a full Scaramucci
We won, but there's not much to smile about on offense. Arch is a disaster that has lost his ability to complete wide open passes, and Sark is calling plays worse than a strippers monkey