> Is downtime an actual, business-killing problem in practice?
Yes, if the business is an enterprise, unscheduled downtime can result in significant losses. It's why disaster recovery is a serious business.
Yes, if the business is an enterprise, unscheduled downtime can result in significant losses. It's why disaster recovery is a serious business.
But is this actually the case of most companies? The AWS outages always have major ripple effects across the internet, suggesting that a lot of companies don't actually do what is needed to guarantee uptime and manage to survive and succeed despite that.