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Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues (www.digitaltrends.com)
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[–] 111 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

I suspect the big problem is that IAM (AWS authentication system) is affected and it is not decentralized, which is causing other systems worldwide to fail because the internal authentication is broken.

I can't login to the AWS console to check on my stuff in the European zone, because the login goes through IAM in us-east-1 where all the authentication does.

It really highlights just how centralized so much of the internet is on like three companies (Amazon, Microsoft, and Google)

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    There is a chrome addon that will "block" anything from AWS with the goal being you get to see how much of the world relies on it.

    I'm starting to understand why some companies are starting to exit AWS and back to their own data centers.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago

    That's the ebb and flow of IT hosting / support.

    On prem -> off prem -> on prem -> off prem

    Same goes for off shore workers. Back and forth back and forth

    Every company I've ever worked for has had that flip flop. :/

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    AWS doesn't go down that often to impact such decisions I wouldn't think... I think it's more likely that these companies calculated that AWS isn't worth the price for their workloads?

    I've been at several companies where just a day's worth of their AWS costs would be able to finance significantly stronger compute/storage, in addition to an administration team for all that. (Of course it's not that simple, but you get what I mean)

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