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@rysiek Hahhahah xD
The day the world stood still.
Because the world keeps putting all service eggs into the same infrastructure provider basket. 🤡
@Em0nM4stodon got my marshmallows out! 
@rysiek AWS' marshmallow bonfire for us: 
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Kill switches by design. Screwed up and self-identified.
@rysiek they said it is unavoidable.
Self hosting is not stable. Does not scale.
What can go wrong :)
Line go up! 
@rysiek lots of large companies that should know not to put all your eggs in one basket...
Wow this is going to be massively, massively expensive for AWS due to all the contractual penalties they'll have to pay out to their clients based on their five-nines SLA contracts and hahahahahaha nope just joking why would Amazon agree to any such thing!
@rysiek Those contracts probably have some kind of 'act of God' clause.
@alterelefant yeah, but this was no act of God, this was DNS.
@rysiek The "Divine Naming Service"
@rysiek “here are some free AI credits for the outage, now fuck off”
…is my predicted AWS response
@rysiek they did agree to sla contracts but they were all nine fives
If you're wondering what AWS is, it's kinda like the operating system of the corporate Internet.
I call it bezOS.
@rysiek in Czech language "bez" means "without", which gives this a nice twist.
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I'd augh tears if it wasn't that serious a problem. Too much data, too much power, too much trade in one hand. Goes for all the tech giants. Bezos is ripping shops of their profits once they have become dependent on their shop at amazon. It's a very sad story.
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In french "Bez" ils pronouced "baise" which is literally "fuck" ;)
@rysiek it's ok... NetWare was written so they could sell AT-clone server hardware. Undistinguished AT-clone server hardware.
@rysiek Yes, now I absolutely know more than before 😅
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@rysiek bez almost means fuck in french. On est baisés: we are fucked, this is very appropriate.
@rysiek outdone yourself with this one
This would be a good time to ask Amazon how much of their stuff is vibe coded.
@rysiek $ shot toot, right here.
@rysiek I can say with certainty (from friends who used to work there) that many of their services are running on AI-generated code that was prompted by product managers and not engineers.
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AWS: Your honor, we do not believe we are bound by the SLA punitive clause in our contract with the plaintiff in this case.
Judge: Care to explain?
AWS: Certainly. The direct cause was tracked down to a bit of AI-generated code.
Judge: How does that…
AWS: It was an act of God, your honor.
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Well whaddya know, Amazon AWS fired hundreds of people in their cloud computing unit in July:
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/amazons-aws-cloud-computing-unit-cuts-least-hundreds-jobs-sources-say-2025-07-17/
> …just a month after CEO Andy Jassy warned that adoption of generative AI tools would trigger a workforce reduction.
Clown Computing! 🤡
@rysiek And those who run it are called 'bezosaurons' ?
@rysiek Whereas there's already BezOS, based on Debian. Latest is v2.7 "Twisting Melon".
Nice to know Amazon is protecting my confidential gov.uk data by denying access. Presumably it's even safe from both US & Chinese agency probes for the duration ;-)
Why is it stored in US-East?
@stuart @rysiek it isn’t - but seemingly lots of Amazon’s “global” services rely on us-east-1, e.g. IAM, Route 53, S3
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/aws-fault-isolation-boundaries/global-services.html
@rysiek A lot of organisations have a very predictable usage of their services or products and therefore do not have the need for dynamic scalability. It is not difficult to maintain your own hardware for (web) hosting, hell, it might even be more affordable in the long run. Well, actually it is more affordable and is also makes you less susceptible for these kind of outages.
@alterelefant @rysiek But then you must pay a salary! Or two! Nooooooo /s
@rysiek U mnie HBO Max działa. Właśnie obejrzałem Ricka i Mortiego.
@rysiek But that means world more gooder :~~D
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