So if one hosts one's site on AWS, then your system probably isn't going to work, eh? :)
If AWS goes down, your site and mine both go down together. This was basically why Pagerduty got out to an early win -- they never used AWS when everyone else did.
Just looked into Rootly - looks great. This was an mvp launch to test the concept but I'll see about building the multi-cloud setup. Nice to see another Western alum here.
Haha not quite! We host our main startup (Website + app) on AWS and have been using it for around 7 months internally, it's worked great for us so far.
But if something crazy like the 2023 outage happens again then you're absolutely right. Though you'd likely get a news alert for it - our fallback :)
If we get enough traction we'll look into a multi-cloud setup to mitigate that risk. For now our goal is to help with notifying you when your server goes down due to more common reasons.
Where you host is underrated. When I started building on-call for Rootly the first thing we did was build a multi-cloud setup (AWS and GCP) for honestly pretty overkill reliability. Don’t regret it one bit.