My half was fine
this post was submitted on 21 Oct 2025
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Didn't even realize anything was down until reading articles about it.. Self-hosted and decentralized is the only way.
Lmfao it’s always DNS
Kek.
It's always fucking dns.
Reading comprehension is dead
Ken Birman, a computer science professor at Cornell University, told Reuters that “software developers need to build better fault tolerance,” suggesting Amazon could have done more to prevent the latest outage. “When people cut costs and cut corners to try to get an application up, and then forget that they skipped that last step and didn’t really protect against an outage, those companies are the ones who really ought to be scrutinized later,” Birman told Reuters.
suggesting Amazon could have done more to prevent the latest outage.
The professor is explicitly saying the opposite. The reason these blips from hyperscalers cause such widespread impacts is that the companies/applications that use these services don't bother to take any precautions against outages.
The full context from the Reuters article is literally 3 sentences I don't understand how this "technology reporter" so fundamentally misunderstood what was being said
Not trying to defend Amazon it just amazes me that this is what passes for journalism now.
Billions of what
Trillion*