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From the standpoint of nearly every individual company, it's still better to go with a well-known high-9s service like AWS than smaller competitors though. The fact that it means your outages will happen at the same time as many others is almost like a bonus to that decision — your customers probably won't fault you for an outage if everyone else is down too.

That homogeneity is a systemic risk that we all bear, of course. It feels like systemic risks often arise that way, as an emergent result from many individual decisions each choosing a path that truly is in their own best interests.



Yeah, but this is exactly not what the internet is supposed to be. It’s supposed to be decentralised. It’s supposed to be resilient.

And at this point I’m looking at the problem and thinking, “how do we do that other than by legislating?”

Because left to their own devices a concerningly large number of people across many, many organisations simply follow the herd.

In the midst of a degrading global security situation I would have thought it would be obvious why that’s a bad idea.




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