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Microsoft Dependency Has Risks

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153 points ArcHound | 2 comments | 25 Jun 25 20:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.476s | source
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hilbert42 ◴[25 Jun 25 23:03 UTC] No.44382615[source]▶
I still find it hard to believe that so many people and companies are prepared to use Microsoft's online/cloud services.

Not ony is this a single point of failure but it's one they've no control over whatsoever. Same goes for Google/Youtube etc. It's as risky as flying a passenger jet with only one engine.

What are they thinking, why are they prepared to risk everything?

It boggles my mind.

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1. Spivak ◴[25 Jun 25 23:15 UTC] No.44382678[source]▶
Do you consider the same single point of failure to use AWS?

There's a pretty significant lower bound of size to where you can reasonably have multiple points of failure. And like oh well if you use this stack you could theoretically move at any time isn't really the same thing as being multi-homed. I've been at places where this has been a concern of the leadership but the economics of it have never really worked out compared to spending your time working on anything else related to the business.

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2. herbst ◴[26 Jun 25 08:37 UTC] No.44385420[source]▶
If it's locked within AWS and you have no way of moving out fast I definitely would consider it a single point of failure.