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DumbStarbucks ◴[] No.36809439[source]
You unfortunately get what you pay for.

AWS is more expensive than God, but I'll be damned if you can't have a throat to choke in less than 10 minutes whenever something like this happens.

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orangepurple ◴[] No.36809597[source]
AWS support replies back to your messages when they feel like it. Their support is just as shady but they have better uptime for sure
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erulabs ◴[] No.36809668[source]
FWIW, our aws enterprise support reps are available 24/7 and usually respond within a few minutes.

But again, you get what you pay for.

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eropple ◴[] No.36810069[source]
I was working for a pretty big early AWS customer--one that had realized that for the low low price of all your money you could make DynamoDB scale to some truly massive numbers--and one time when we were having trouble around noon Eastern, a colleague called up our TAM. As he told it, the TAM sounded half-asleep, so my colleague asked if everything was alright.

"I'm in Hawaii on my honeymoon and my backup missed your call, so it escalated."

I probably wouldn't have answered the phone. Granted, that's why I don't do that job. But I have always had a real appreciation for the good TAMs ever since.

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1. justinclift ◴[] No.36810163[source]
Wonder if that marriage lasted though? ;)