AWS, Microsoft Azure, and CloudFlare – services run by gigantic corporations with endless supply of money and talent – all experience catastrophic, global failures that take innumerable other services down with them within 30 days. :blob0w0:

Meanwhile Wikipedia just keeps chugging along, globally stable and reliable as always. :blobcatlove:

And yes, Wikimedia Foundation runs a pretty complex infrastructure:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_infrastructure

#SysAdmin #CloudFlare #AWS #Azure #Wikipedia

AWS, Microsoft Azure, and CloudFlare – services run by gigantic corporations with endless supply of money and talent – all experience catastrophic, global failures that take innumerable other services down with them within 30 days. :blob0w0:

Meanwhile Wikipedia just keeps chugging along, globally stable and reliable as always. :blobcatlove:

And yes, Wikimedia Foundation runs a pretty complex infrastructure:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_infrastructure

#SysAdmin #CloudFlare #AWS #Azure #Wikipedia

According to early reports, another AWS outage has struck the internet, with a huge rise in reports of problems across AWS-backed services, including Azure, Microsoft 365, Minecraft, Capital One, Xbox, and, of course, AWS itself.

#Tech #InfoSec #Amazon #AWS #Microsoft #Windows #Computing #TechNews #Blog #Science #Technology #News #CyberSecurity #Business #Azure #Games #Engineering #Markets #USA #EU #Asia #Africa #SocialMedia #Mastodon

According to early reports, another AWS outage has struck the internet, with a huge rise in reports of problems across AWS-backed services, including Azure, Microsoft 365, Minecraft, Capital One, Xbox, and, of course, AWS itself.

#Tech #InfoSec #Amazon #AWS #Microsoft #Windows #Computing #TechNews #Blog #Science #Technology #News #CyberSecurity #Business #Azure #Games #Engineering #Markets #USA #EU #Asia #Africa #SocialMedia #Mastodon

Centralization creates convenience, until it doesn’t.

#aws #awsoutage

Centralization creates convenience, until it doesn’t.

#aws #awsoutage

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! 🤡

#AWS #AWSOutage

This would be a good time to ask Amazon how much of their stuff is vibe coded.

#AWS

Line go up!

#AWS #AWSOutage #SysAdmin

I've recently (last few months) had several instances where #AWS says they are passing all health checks. But the serial console is not available, and the node is not responding to anything at all. All endpoints are down in the load balancers.

I've had to take manual intervention to terminate these instances so that the auto-scaler can bring up a new one and K8s can move the workload. Anyone else seeing this? This is us-west-2 #awscloud

Advanced Programming the UNIX Environment

Our reference platform for this class is NetBSD. Some ways to get set up are:

Use an AWS image:
https://stevens.netmeister.org/615/netbsd-amis.html

Create your own AWS image:
https://www.netmeister.org/blog/creating-netbsd-ec2-amis.html
https://www.netmeister.org/blog/netbsd-amd64-ami.html

Install NetBSD on a Linode:
https://www.netmeister.org/blog/netbsd-on-linode.html

Use UTM / qemu:
https://stevens.netmeister.org/631/utm/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCqfmuG5Acc

#NetBSD #apue #AWS #Linode