This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Amazon sneezes, the whole internet catches a cold.
Im still seeing services up/down the entire day at work. Services that are not even AWS like Azure are slow for some reason (probably businesses failing over to other infa). Its crazy.
None of our in office infa is having issues. Managers are talking about fail-overs all day lol.
When a handful of people own all the companies in the world, the whole world becomes a single point of failure.
Soon: "Welcome to Amazon, I love you."
It's almost as if centralizing everything is fucking stupid.
But the bean counters said it was the best idea!
Accountants shouldn’t be allowed to make decisions beyond their personal lives. MBAs even more so
So Roblox is the only of those companies that can handle proper region failover if us-east-1 shits the bed? You young ops have gotten soft! Learn to live by ChaosMonkey or die by the Gorilla.
Yeah, but proper failover and recovery requires additional infrastructure, and that costs money.
Hopefully a bunch of risk management people are writing I-told-you-so emails to C-suites right now.
Yeah but not to worry, C-suites have pretty good filtering rules in place to never read them. Saves time, really.
And plausible deniability.
So Roblox is the only of those companies that can handle proper region failover if us-east-1 shits the bed?
Either that, or the reports stopped coming in since it's a school day.
Roblox doesn't really lock down regions unless they are China. The game client can connect to any server they own. It naturally falls back to the server with the least issues without prompts and intervention. If for an even bigger example all US servers were to go offline, the client automatically redirects people to either Europe or Asia based on ping.
Jesus Amazon is a big enough company they should be doing their own hosting not using AWS.
They're big enough to be a utility and be nationalized!
And should be
Amazon is using their own hosting. AWS stands for Amazon Web Services. Or did I miss the joke?
Miss
I was confused too, but I'm still glad you didn't add the /s because that always kills the joke.
I for one don't think you missed anything
Once upon a time they insisted that Amazon had independent decision making on their providers when they were needing new infrastructure and they "always decided that AWS suited them best."
Shockingly (/s), they stopped making that claim right about the same time they started admitting that their biggest users are all under Private Pricing Agreements.
Maybe it was a bad idea for society to put 90% of the internet on one company's infrastructure.
Let's take a decentralized network and centalize it! Nothing will surely go wrong.
It's kind of telling when Amazon services like Ring, Prime Video, and Alexa failed over pretty quickly, but everything else just didnt.
There's no conspiracy here. It's just highlighting that Amazon could prepare for AWS outages in a region, but since everything auth related was on us-east-1, everything else went down.
Shortcuts are costly.
Hey! Great idea! Let's make all of the internet rely on one service from one evil company! What could go wrong?
Typical Amazon undersells everyone else to remove competition. Then after everyone has gone under reminds you it is a terrible idea. Hopefully we see businesses get burnt more and determine it is better to self host, or even better yet not need half their services on "the cloud" anyways.
Figma balls wheeeyyyy
Figma
of your imagination?
It seems that there is not a single original thought in that head of mine.
Why does Amazon use AWS?
I thought they had an in-house solution.
A lot of AWS are wrappers over said in house solutions
And there’s a push to move off of those to proper AWS
…and I did not even notice it, aside from the news here.
It really shows what a great life that we on the Fediverse are living, by making our tech independent to a degree from the largest tech providers.
I am grateful that my past me (from few months ago) decided to study Slavic philology, instead of getting stupid tech job. I hate modern tech, including anything from big corporations.
I am also glad that I've switched to Linux (Debian ftw) to escape software enshittification.
The cloud was a scam for people with more money than sense.
Most people hosting things on the cloud, like Fediverse services, would be better off selfhosting and buying the hardware themselves.
Bottom left
figma ballz hahaha gotem
Edit: ohh noooo I just saw PhobosAnomaly’s post, I am so slow
What are these random fucking websites though
I mean those are giant websites and organizations that exist in the mainstream, instructure is used by most schools nowadays
even the websites for local health systems have been going down. At this point if we have an event like Y2K was supposed to be, we are so fucked lol
Shit, none of my websites are slow. Fuck Amazon
Diversity is a strength when things go bad.
