> I'm not a big fan of seeing all these folks bash AWS for this,
The disdain I saw was towards those claiming that all you need is AWS, that AWS never goes down, and don't bother planning for what happens when AWS goes down.
AWS is an amazing accomplishment, but it's still a single point of failure. If you are a company relying on a single supplier and you don't have any backup plans for that supplier being unavailable, that is ridiculous and worthy of laughter.
The disdain I saw was towards those claiming that all you need is AWS, that AWS never goes down, and don't bother planning for what happens when AWS goes down.
AWS is an amazing accomplishment, but it's still a single point of failure. If you are a company relying on a single supplier and you don't have any backup plans for that supplier being unavailable, that is ridiculous and worthy of laughter.