On: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

[Salgat]

That depends if you're willing to pay for the cost of hosting all your content twice and the development overhead of managing that. Twice the persistences means twice the chance of an issue occurring.

[nashadelic → Salgat]

That's where tech like kubernetes help in making your app/service portable. Or having common APIs like between s3 and google cloud storage.

Twice the persistence means always having at least one backup and thus the occurance of downtime reduces not up

[_wldu → Salgat]

With containers, I think the devops overhead would be minimal.

[tejasmanohar → _wldu]

That's if _everything_ is in containers. Also, don't undermine how much of a difference the host machine configuration can make... Docker uses its kernel.