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This is how articles should be written, this is why I’m reading El Reg (a.k.a. The Register) all these decades, this is what happens when high management cares only about profits and when real engineers don’t eat the RTO bullshit. Bravo for putting this online.

P.S. I’m not an Amazon hater, replace the company name with any other big one of your choice and the article will have the same meaning ;-)

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It's not your feeling about Amazon that would cast doubt on your take, it's that you've reduced it to one pet cause and decided a source is well written because it appeals to your dislike of RTO. Nowhere has any evidence of the relevance of that to this been presented, Amazon has had outages since before WFH even began, they've all always had their occasional outages and bad days.

There’s clear data that shows an increase in the frequency and severity of LSEs post RTO3 in 2023, and it looks like RTO5 has accelerated that trend.

The Register is an opinionated tech tabloid filled with outrage bait. This article is not an exception, drawing far reaching conclusions from little evidence.

“Little evidence?” If the “aws” partition doesn’t actually exist when IAD breaks, Amazon hasn’t even discovered how to make multi-region cloud infrastructure. That’s a big deal.

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