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>> People laughed and some said something like "well, if something like AWS falls then we have bigger problems".

> They’re not wrong though. If AWS goes down, EVERYTHING goes down to some degree. Your app, your competitor’s apps, your clients’ chat apps. You’re kinda off the hook.

They made their own bigger problems by all crowding into the same single region.

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it's a weird effect:

imagine a beach, with icecream vendors. You'd think it would be optimal for two vendors to each split it half north, half south. However, in wanting to steal some of the other vendors' customers, you end up with two icecream stands in the center.

So too with outages. Safety / loss of blame in numbers.

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