It's incredible that with the backbone of internet being hosted by a few companies (Amazon, Google, Microsoft, etc) in the cloud, as soon as they run into issues, or coordinated attacks... the entire internet grinds to a halt.
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Right now, the google outage is causing massive disruption.pic.twitter.com/q9k907e0IV
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The cost of building and maintaining your own server/cloud infrastructure is
but the upside..
- Not dependent on others
- Build more efficiency into your stack
- When everything else is down, people spend more time with you!
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Replying to @willlowther @PlayApex
Oh I agree, for 99% of companies - it makes no sense. Although for a company like Epic, or Facebook - I can see it making sense. While YouTube is down, I'd love to see how the "time spent" shifts to IG/FB/Twitter/Reddit.
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There's nothing stopping Epic going multi cloud, they should absolutely be doing that :)
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IIRC they are?
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We run most everything on AWS, though a few of the back-end services support multiple hosting providers. Personally I’m very happy to focus on software and not worry about keeping 100,000’s of physical machines running.
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appreciate the input! do you think there's ever an inflection point for a company of your scale where it makes sense or is the build vs. buy question and most just choose to focus on what you/they're good at?
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I don’t think much about this. For every $1 Amazon spent on server hardware that Fortnite has utilized, players have spent maybe $100 buying the devices they play Fortnite on. By TFLOP it’s more like 1000:1. The big iron isn’t in the cloud, it’s in our homes and pockets.
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