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.
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.