Hey! Great idea! Let's make all of the internet rely on one service from one evil company! What could go wrong?
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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.
It's not a full escape, just a path to escape.
Time for open source Amazon app alternatives to be made. Made a post on OpenSource with suggestions on how to do it and how it can help open source communities: KDE, GNU/Linux, etc can each make their own and use their profits for their own and other open source projects. A passive income if you will from making, and managing the app that displays products from various partnered stores and websites
For some context, the issue was affecting AWS or Amazon Web Services, which is hosting for those other services (or parts of them), not an amazon app issue cascading to other services.
And I don't think an open source amazon app would work. Amazon is a lot more than just a webstore. They've got a massive logistics network plus warehouses and packing plants. I feel like an open source version of amazon's store would end up avoiding the corporate shit but would have all the negatives of amazon store without many of the positives.
…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.
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 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
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."
There are some downstream / knock on effects going on which can be explained...but I can't help but wonder if today's story is bigger than just AWS. AWS saying it was an outage of a "few hours" for DynamoDB and DNS...and that doesn't line up all that great with what people are reporting in the wild . I'm not trying to start a conspiracy theory, just wondering what the post mortems will tell us, if anything. Obviously the suits want to keep embarrassing fuckups downplayed as much as possible.
Its crazy, we are seeing unrelated services stop sending emails, issues with DNS, all sorts of strange stuff.
Maybe it's cascade effects? Something depends on something else, which depends on a third thing that depends on AWS for something?
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They want to keep the news of the rally over the weekend as quiet as possible.
and the epstein files. i heard it dint affect international that much, so its rather covenient.
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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.
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.
Yup, and some things which can be moved cannot be done automatically, quickly or easily....even if you are prepared. AWS is a huge suite of products and services, and there's a lot of old legacy shit running on it. I wouldn't punch down on the ops for this one. Cybersecurity and disaster recovery are not directly profitable, so they are almost always neglected in your average shop.
AWS is a huge suite of products and services, and there's a lot of old legacy shit running on it.
Yup, AWS is legacy cloud. It was only recently that they set encryption by default on S3 buckets, before that they were just in the clear by default.
Cybersecurity and disaster recovery are not directly profitable, so they are almost always neglected in your average shop.
It's never important until suddenly it's the most important thing in the world.
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.
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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?
I for one don't think you missed anything
Miss
I was confused too, but I'm still glad you didn't add the /s because that always kills the joke.
I don't always downvote posts that use /s, but I do always downvote posts that complain about someone not using it.
Sarcasm is ok but deadpan is where it's at.
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Figma balls wheeeyyyy
It seems that there is not a single original thought in that head of mine.
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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
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figma ballz hahaha gotem
Edit: ohh noooo I just saw PhobosAnomaly’s post, I am so slow
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.
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