With the AWS outage, now is a good time to re-read The Eternal Mainframe
https://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Eternal_Mainframe.html
⛈️ What has caused AWS outage today - and why did it make the internet fall apart? / BBC
Yogthos
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🚨 Another massive AWS outage just took down Roblox, Fortnite, Coinbase, Snapchat, and all Supercell games.
Half the internet has gone dark because of one Big Tech company. This is not innovation, it is monopoly risk.
💡It’s time to choose alternatives.
podfeet
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Nizar Kerkeni 🇹🇳 نزار القرقني
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Major outage affecting Signal and other online services resolved
👉 https://aboutsignal.com/news/outage-at-signal-and-several-other-online-services/
Nicd
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#AWS is now trending across Mastodon
#AWSdown is now trending across Mastodon
#AWSOutage is now trending across Mastodon
#Outage is now trending across Mastodon
#Signal is now trending across Mastodon
Stefano Marinelli
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The internet was initially designed to be fault tolerant and resilient. Even if one route was down, a package should be able to find another way to it's destination, that's what it was designed for. And it worked, because the internet is decentral.
With the advent of the cloud, everything should have become even more reliable. No more outages, because it's in the the cloud and cloud is always better than on prem.
Well, this morning I figured out that some of our communication platforms were not working as expected. Also some other SAAS solutions we are using had issues. And now it turns out that there is a global outage of AWS.
Can it really be a good option, when everything in the world relies on a handful of central cloud service providers? I doubt it...
But this gives us a first taste of what happens, when we only rely on a few central providers or providers all based in one country.
https://www.heise.de/en/news/Amazon-Web-Services-Global-Outage-10779040.html
The internet was initially designed to be fault tolerant and resilient. Even if one route was down, a package should be able to find another way to it's destination, that's what it was designed for. And it worked, because the internet is decentral.
With the advent of the cloud, everything should have become even more reliable. No more outages, because it's in the the cloud and cloud is always better than on prem.
Well, this morning I figured out that some of our communication platforms were not working as expected. Also some other SAAS solutions we are using had issues. And now it turns out that there is a global outage of AWS.
Can it really be a good option, when everything in the world relies on a handful of central cloud service providers? I doubt it...
But this gives us a first taste of what happens, when we only rely on a few central providers or providers all based in one country.
https://www.heise.de/en/news/Amazon-Web-Services-Global-Outage-10779040.html
Major outage affecting Signal and other online services resolved
👉 https://aboutsignal.com/news/outage-at-signal-and-several-other-online-services/
Chances are, the End of the World (as we know it) will not start with ballistic missiles flying left and right, but with an AWS outage.
🚨 Another massive AWS outage just took down Roblox, Fortnite, Coinbase, Snapchat, and all Supercell games.
Half the internet has gone dark because of one Big Tech company. This is not innovation, it is monopoly risk.
💡It’s time to choose alternatives.
#AWS is now trending across Mastodon
#AWSdown is now trending across Mastodon
#AWSOutage is now trending across Mastodon
#Outage is now trending across Mastodon
#Signal is now trending across Mastodon
Worldwide AWS Outage: Snapchat, Duolingo and several banks among major apps down in Amazon internet services outage https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c5y8k7k6v1rt
Monkeymind 🐒
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Currently, there is an outage affecting various online services, including #Signal.
Other apps such as #Snapchat and #Canva are also not working due to this.
👉 https://aboutsignal.com/news/outage-at-signal-and-several-other-online-services/