I am seeing *so many* bad takes about the AWS outage, so many.
Everybody is smug until they get fucked with their pants on.
Even if you've done everything to run your own stuff and host it, it is very difficult to avoid services that will be impacted and there's *no way* the majority of businesses are running all that stuff themselves.
Comms tools, status pages, payment systems, monitoring systems, build tool, deployment tools, planning tools, the list goes on.
If you're telling me you're running absolutely everything yourself, well done, I have no idea how, and if you're better at all of that than all the SAAS providers, I struggle to believe you've time left in the day to run your actual business.
100% you should be doing your due diligence to make sure you're resilient where it matters, but being caught up in something like this is almost inevitable if you're a non trivial online company.
Stop throwing rocks, start sending #hugOps