Comment Re: Moved to cloud? Now pay the stupidity tax. (Score 1) 55
Question to what extent was revenue reduced versus deferred. If 90% of their customers couldn't reach competitors either, was revenue lost or did it just happen later?
The thing is that this is terrible for all the outages to be aligned for the internet users, but for the providers, the thought that outages are likely to align with competitor outages might be a pretty solid mitigation, so long as the outage doesn't exceed what they might incur themselves. Even a longer outage common with competitors may be better than a shorter outage that *only* impacts them.
Certainly if AWS was down enough that someone could get a competitive advantage by moving it would drag on them, but if it's not *much* worse than their own outages, well there's a comfort in making sure your competitors are more likely to go down with you.