If I choose AWS/cloudflare and we're down with half of the internet, then I don't even need to explain it to my boss' bosses, because there will be an article in the mainstream media.

If I choose something else, we're down, and our competitors aren't, then my overlords will start asking a lot of questions.

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stevepotter 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yup. AWS went down at a previous job and everyone basically took the day off and the company collectively chuckled. Cloudflare is interesting because most execs don’t know about it so I’d imagine they’d be less forgiving. “So what does cloudflare do for us exactly? Don’t we already have aws?”

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jfengel 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

And if everyone else is down, and you are not, you will get no credit.

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lbreakjai 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Or _you_ aren't down, but a third-party you depend on is (auth0, payment gateway, what have you), and you invested a lot of time and effort into being reliable, but it was all for less than nothing, because your website loads but customers can't purchase, and they associate the problem with you, not with the AWS outage.

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trollbridge 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Right. Whereas if we get whacked with a random DDoS, that's my fault.

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timeon 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

In reality it is not half of the internet. That is just marketing. I've personally noticed one news site while others were working. And I guess sites like that will get the blame.