These bets aren’t as innocent as they seem because the bettors can often influence or change the outcome.
Imagine if the betting website itself shuts down because AWS is down. (half joking I suppose though)
> These bets aren’t as innocent as they seem because the bettors can often influence or change the outcome.
Overall I agree with your statement that these betting markets also are able to incentivize a lot of insider trading and one can say negative scenarios as this has given them an incentive to capitalize on that.
When customers pay for cloud services, they expect them to be maintained by competent engineers.
cmiles8•55m ago
And while yes building across multiple regions and AZs is a thing, AWS has had a string of issues where US-East 1 has broader impacts, which makes things far less redundant and resilient than AWS implies.
keeganpoppen•41m ago