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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Yeah, what's up with that actually ?

Anyone with the Knowledge care to explain ?

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I or others can go into more detail, but I'm guessing you do not want a super in depth answer?

    One of the major cloud providers (aka renting a chunk of a data center) has a outage in the us-east-1 region. Because of internal dependencies on us-east-1, when that AWS region (aka data center) has problems it impacts service's across all AWS regions. To end users, suddenly web sites will act strange, crash, or just not work as elements of their backend are having problems. Due to the raw size of AWS, when something like this happens vast swaths of the web will break.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Thank you for this clarifying information. So AWS seems heavily centralized in particular or that's just how it goes for those types of services ?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    There's only a few big web hosts really. It's like with regular services like e-commerce or whatever. There's Amazon, Oracle, and Microsoft. Over time they've either bought or undercut competitors until it's one big centralized web world. There's others but they're small fish to those three.

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

    What do you need someone to be Knowledgeable about? AWS US East 1 is down

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago*

    To extend what others have said. A main service in the most popular public clowd (AWS/Amazon Web Services) is down, which affects all customers that rely on that service, and they are many.

    AWS does a lot of redundancy, but their identity management service (IAM) can't do much redundancy without adding vulnerabilities to it. That service had an issue and nothing else can take the batton for security reasons.

    Why companies do not have a contingency plan? Because they decided to fire some of their IT teams, giving the money to Amazon instead (you need to have an MBA to understand it, cocaine addiction or a combination).

    I maybe wrong, my major was natural sciences but I chose not to be poor.

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