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If this was the work of a hacker then I never want to know their name.
YO HO! Thieves and Beggars! Hoist the colors high!
Yo ho yo ho a pirate's life for me.
Oh I didn't notice 🏴☠️
LoL, same. I didn't even know a problem existed til I opened up Lemmy this morning. 😂
Same.
Thats what happens when a single company controls the flow
Funny, my digitized collection of movies and TV shows seems to be working just fine. :3
I sure do love working at an MSP during times like this. Today fuckin sucked. Clients called in non-stop about things being broke AND our ticketing and remote support software was up and down all day
People are too uneducated to just see what works and what doesn’t and add 1 and 1 together. If Google or WhatsApp work and Amazon doesn’t then it‘s definitely an Amazon problem.
At this point, I'm not surprised by people not having critical thinking skills. I encounter folks who do not think at all about anything on the daily.
Managed Service Provider, for those curious.
https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
I suspect the big problem is that IAM (AWS authentication system) is affected and it is not decentralized, which is causing other systems worldwide to fail because the internal authentication is broken.
I can't login to the AWS console to check on my stuff in the European zone, because the login goes through IAM in us-east-1 where all the authentication does.
It really highlights just how centralized so much of the internet is on like three companies (Amazon, Microsoft, and Google)
There is a chrome addon that will "block" anything from AWS with the goal being you get to see how much of the world relies on it.
I'm starting to understand why some companies are starting to exit AWS and back to their own data centers.
Funny. My Jellyfin instance is working fine. 😏
Why do these companies still sign with AWS? Didn't they learn from the last two major outages in us-east? To say nothing of the deceptive business practices to obfuscate service utilization to overcharge businesses?
For these large businesses, I imagine they get favorable deals, and all the executives probably know each other and scratch each-other's backs. For smaller businesses, AWS can decrease time-to-market, it's easy to find people who are already familiar with it, and is seen as less risky than going with some smaller provider. Though, I hate the "cloud" with a passion, and whenever I'm given the choice, I avoid it. It's quite a bit cheaper in the long run to avoid cloud providers too. On one long project I worked on, we hadn't had downtime on any of our VPSs longer than a couple minutes over the course of 8 years.
My guess, the CFO showed that using AWS saves the company a few cents to a fraction of a cent per what ever unit they measure by. Those few cents to a fraction of a cent add up when multiplied by the millions or hundreds of millions of units and that savings makes the CEO look like they are more profitable and can give shareholders more profit.
When everything is about the quarterly results and the need to always show growth so the board and shareholders don't fire you, you'll cut corners and take the risk, as long as it has the potential to make you look good.
Bro casually and respectfully explaining enshittification over here.
I'm dead tired and can't think of a way to say this without sounding arrogant, seriously my brain is fried right now, so I'll just say I take that as a compliment and thank you.
Airlines were one of the first to enshittify this way in the modern age. I think a lot of the current executives took this story to heart IMO.
PirateBay reliable as ever....
its us-east-1 as usual, I guess its that time of the year. and the companies haven't changed either... so, basically the IT guys told the budget approvers we need more money they calculated it and said, no. see you next year for another one.
Sorry I missed this. I was too busy enjoying my library of media locally over Jellyfin.
Oh no, anyways
opens VLC to watch stuff I already downloaded a few days ago
Basket, dropped
Eggs, broken
Hehe. Imagine managing your house in the cloud, and suddenly there is no heating, no light, all the "smart" appliances don't work anymore, and the shower only produces cold water, because the shower thermostat got a "0" as return value when asking for the preferred temperature...
There's a good reason why I refuse to use cloud connected or Internet required "smart" devices.
It's essentially an excuse for shitty engineering.
If you really need a device to be cloud connected then it can also maintain local data when the remote server is down. Even better, it uses an open spec and you can standup your own server.
but how? isn't all that stuff all up in the cloud? The cloud is great, right?
Looks like it was an Amazon AWS outage. Just geos to how how vulnerable the Internet is as it becomes ever more concentrated into the hands of the tech giants.
