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You know, those are excellent observations. But they don’t change the decision calculus in this case. Using bigger cloud providers doesn’t eliminate all risk, it just creates a different kind of risk.

What we call “progress” in humanity is just putting our best efforts into reducing or eliminating the problems we know how to solve without realizing the problems they may create further down the line. The only way to know for sure is to try it, see how it goes, and then re-evaluate later.

California had issues with many forest fires. They put out all fires. Turns out, that solution creates a bigger problem down the line with humongous uncontrollable fires which would not have happened if the smaller fires had not been put out so frequently. Oops.




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