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.
bartread|4 months ago
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.