It’s almost as if centralizing everything is fucking stupid.
But the bean counters said it was the best idea!
At my work there was a big push to get things out of our own isolated data centers and into AWS because we had some services that were really very vulnerable and not equipped to serve a global distributed audience well. AWS solved that problem for us and our devs liked working with it. However now our AWS bill is so high that we’re pushing everyone to reduce it. I guess that makes sense. We’re not going back to self-hosting, just optimizing and reducing. But it sure feels like whiplash from “get everything into AWS” to “we have too much in AWS.”
So it sounds like rather than investing in your own systems you outsourced and now it costs far more.
Shit son that’s the same as almost every industry.
I don’t know if it costs far more but AWS is one big bill whereas running your own systems is a bunch of smaller expenses including real estate and employees in addition to hardware and utilities costs, insurance, etc which are harder to count. We see AWS on one big bill so the sticker shock is more palpable.
Moving to AWS didn’t just replace our services, it gave us a higher level of service reliability and availability. We would have had to double our spend to serve the globe as we really need to. AWS was the better option.
I think it costs a ridiculous amount because we moved over services that were built on self-run data centers where chron jobs were not billed on CPU cycles in a transparent way. Now they are. We can probably cut the AWS bill by as much as half through intelligent refactoring and optimization. Smarter data retention periods, killing off shit that isn’t worth it etc.
Maybe it was a bad idea for society to put 90% of the internet on one company’s infrastructure.
Let’s take a decentralized network and centalize it! Nothing will surely go wrong.
Hey! Great idea! Let’s make all of the internet rely on one service from one evil company! What could go wrong?
I think evil is too strong a word for Amazon, I think benzos is one of the nicer billionaires but I have heard the horror stories from Amazon warehouses.
…and I did not even notice it, aside from the news here.
It really shows what a great life that we on the Fediverse are living, by making our tech independent to a degree from the largest tech providers.
I am grateful that my past me (from few months ago) decided to study Slavic philology, instead of getting stupid tech job. I hate modern tech, including anything from big corporations.
I am also glad that I’ve switched to Linux (Debian ftw) to escape software enshittification.
It’s not a full escape, just a path to escape.
What are these random fucking websites though
I mean those are giant websites and organizations that exist in the mainstream, instructure is used by most schools nowadays
Diversity is a strength when things go bad.
I’m okay to blame bozos.
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Time for open source Amazon app alternatives to be made. Made a post on OpenSource with suggestions on how to do it and how it can help open source communities: KDE, GNU/Linux, etc can each make their own and use their profits for their own and other open source projects. A passive income if you will from making, and managing the app that displays products from various partnered stores and websites
For some context, the issue was affecting AWS or Amazon Web Services, which is hosting for those other services (or parts of them), not an amazon app issue cascading to other services.
And I don’t think an open source amazon app would work. Amazon is a lot more than just a webstore. They’ve got a massive logistics network plus warehouses and packing plants. I feel like an open source version of amazon’s store would end up avoiding the corporate shit but would have all the negatives of amazon store without many of the positives.
Are any lemmy instances run on aws? Been getting a lot less articles last couple days
Maybe the bots are run by AWS
I’d be surprised if none are run in AWS.
