An Amazon Web Services outage has been causing major disruptions around the world. The service provides remote computing services to many apps, websites, governments, universities and companies.
On Downdetector, a website that tracks online outages, users reported issues with Amazon Alexa, Amazon Prime, Snapchat, Ring, Roblox, Fortnite, online broker Robinhood, the McDonald’s app and many others.
I love it when everyone’s web services rely on a single company that ppl hate
That’s why real web companies go multi cloud. Letting us divide up our dependency among the big 3 companies everyone hates (Google, Amazon and Microsoft).
pay a premium for the same amount of CPU & RAM you could’ve gotten from your classic VPS provider fire your sysadmins and hire DevOps Engineers at 2x the salary raise a ticket with AWS and wait every time you need more than 5 instances of the same compute type oops, our biggest DC got knocked offline, here’s some compute time credits
the cloud has been the biggest scam in tech history
Applications still need to be built to be fault tolerant across multiple AZs. Amazon even tells you this because things can and will go down.
Turns out when you put half of the entire internet at the whims of one billionaire who literally uses vibe coding on it, if anything fails, half of the fucking internet in the WORLD goes FUBAR.
I can’t even use my credit app that I use to buy things right now because it’s fucked.
Meanwhile, AWS claims to host 7,500 different US government agencies (state, fed, local).
Lol, this has always been the thing we have told them would happen. When the company pitches why its so good and how they have a lot of data centers all over so there will never be a large scale outage we all laughed and said ok sure not yet but we’ll see. We’ll here it is!
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