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> The fact that the industry collectively shrugs our shoulders and allows increasing amounts of our tech stacks to be single-vendor hostage is crazy.

Well, nobody is going to get blamed for this one except people at Amazon. Socially, this is treated as as a tornado. You have to be certain that you can beat AWS in terms of reliability for doing anything about this to be good for your career.

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In 20+ years in the industry, all my biggest outages have been AWS... and they seem to be happening annually.

Most of my on-prem days, you had more frequent but smaller failures of a database, caching service, task runner, storage, message bus, DNS, whatever.. but not all at once. Depending on how entrenched your organization is, some of these AWS outages are like having a full datacenter power down.

Might as well just log off for the day and hope for better in the morning. That assumes you could login, which some of my ex-US colleagues could not for half the day, despite our desktops being on-prem. Someone forgot about the AWS 2FA dependency..

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