A whole bunch of meeting bots use Recall.

Recall is on AWS.

Everyone using Recall for meeting recordings is down.

In some domains, a single SaaS dominates the domain and if that SaaS sits on AWS, it doesn't matter if AWS is 35% marketshare because the SaaS that dominates 80% of the domain is on AWS so the effect is wider than just AWS's market share.

We're on GCP, but we have various SaaS vendors on AWS so any of the services that rely on AWS are gone.

Many chat/meeting services also run on AWS Chime so even if you're not on AWS, if a vendor uses Chime, that service is down.

Doesn’t Slack use Chime for video calls?

Yes. Yes it does.

Part of the company I work at is doing infrastructure consulting. We're in fact seeing companies moving to bare metal, with the rise of turnkey container systems between Nutanix, Purestorage, Redhat, ... At this point in time, a few remotely managed boxes in a rack can offer a really good experience for containers for very little effort.

And this comes in a time with regulations like Dora and the BaFin tightening things - managing these boxes becomes less effort than maintaining compliance across vendors.

There have been plenty of solutions for a while. Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Open Shift, etc. None of these were "turnkey" though. If you're doing consulting, is it more newer, easier to install/manage tech, or is it cost?

I'm not in our consulting parts for infra, but based on their feedback and some talks at a conference a bit back: Vendors have been working on standardizing on Kubernetes components and mechanics and a few other protocols, which is simplifying configuration and reducing the configuration you have to do infrastructurally a lot.

Note, I'm not affiliated with any of these companies.

For example, Purestorage has put a lot of work into their solution and for a decent chunk of cache, you get a system that slots right into VMware, offers iSCSI for other infrastructure providers, offers a CSI plugin for containers, and speaks S3. And integration with a few systems like OpenShift has been simplified as well.

This continues. You can get ingress/egress/network monitoring compliance from Calico slotting in as a CNI plugin, some systems managing supply chain security, ... Something like Nutanix is an entirely integrated solution you rack and then you have a container orchestration with storage and all of the cool things.

Cost is not really that much a factor in this market. Outsourcing regulatory requirements and liability to vendors is great.

Because your competitor probably depends on a service which uses aws. They may host all their stuff in azure, but use cloudfront as cache which uses aws and goes down.

because your competitors are probably using services that depend on AWS.