> We use Azure at work and it’s wild how much stuff is just manual labor behind the scenes on their platform.

AWS is no different. Everything is on fire all the time, but customers usually don't notice.

Can you clarify what you mean? Do you work there, or have you had negative experiences as a customer?

Disclosure: I work at AWS, at the core EC2 dataplane for many years now. We monitor our production environment very aggressively with tight SLAs that page us at night, and our technical leadership is competent as well.

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mrdootdoot a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That means AWS is doing it right, though

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encrypted_bird a day ago | parent [-]

Or just not as badly.

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cowlevel 18 hours ago | parent [-]

at something AWS scale something is always on fire, they probably measure disk head crashes per second, and they're supposed to insulate it from their clients with layers of redundancy. If those layers are working, they're doing it okay.

Above those layers is a ton of jank, e.g. Elastic Beanstalk. But my understanding is the fundamentals on AWS - compute, storage, networking - are pretty much rock-solid.

	▲	encrypted_bird 18 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Fair.

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globular-toast 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The petrol in a four stroke internal combustion engine is on fire all the time too. The important part is nobody notices.