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Comment by WendyTheWillow | Hacker News Reader

FWIW, my experience in AWS, as far as "engineer changes something and breaks your production," is not without its own set of issues. Perhaps the AWS version of this story hasn't impacted you, but AWS also constantly tweaks its services, sometimes to the detriment of its users.

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I totally believe you. It could absolutely be bad luck / good luck.

I think if you search across the internet you find a lot more GCP horror stories than AWS ones. Considering the market ownership of the two platforms, I'd expect the opposite to be true.

References please.

I've seen issues with RDS after an update. We were seeing CPU max out; adding more readers didn't help, and in the end, we had to rebuild the entire cluster. This somehow fixed the issue, and CPU use returned to normal levels; we didn't make any code changes to the app.

You want me to provide references for my personal experience?

Not necessarily. I would like examples of where "...AWS also constantly tweaks its services, sometimes to the detriment of its users..." so I can be better informed, and make better decisions within my projects.

And you thought posting, “references please” would be the best way to get that info?

Also those are examples, or details, even. Not references.

Are you going to mention, describe or post some examples....Or...keep focusing on the way I asked for it?

No, because you've been a jerk during this conversation.

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