What company did you do it with, can you say? Definitely, they may have been an early mover, but they can (and I'll say will!) still be displaced eventually, that's how business goes.

It's fine if someone guesses the well-known company, but I can't confirm/deny; like privacy a bit too much/post a bit too spicy. This wasn't a darling VC thing, to be fair. Overstated my involvement with 'made' for effect. A lot of us did the building and testing.

Definitely, that makes sense. Ya no worries at all, I think we all know these kinds of things involve 100+ human work-years, so at best we all just have some contribution to them.

> think we all know these kinds of things involve 100+ human work-years

No kidding! The customers differ, business/finance/governments, but the volume [systems/time/effort] was comparable to Amazon. The people involved in audits were consumed practically for a whole quarter, if memory serves. Not necessarily for testing itself: first, planning, sharing the plan, then dreading the plan.

Anyway, I don't miss doing this at all. Didn't mean to imply mitigation is trivial, just feasible :) 'AWS scale' is all the more reason to do business continuity/disaster recovery testing! I guess I find it being surprising, surprising.

Competitors have an easier time avoiding the creation of a Gordian Knot with their services... when they aren't making a new one every week. There are significant degrees to PaaS, a little focus [not bound to a promotion packet] goes a long way.