▲ 103 ▼ So admins, hows your instances looking today? (piefed.social) submitted 1 year ago by mesamunefire@piefed.social to c/fediverse@lemmy.world 22 comments fedilink hide all child comments Since AWS is still having issues, I was wondering how the fediverse is? How are you all fairing this fine Monday?
[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children) I never even heard of AWS before today. What is it? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] countrypunk@slrpnk.net 15 points 1 year ago Amazon web services. They are one of the biggest providers for hosting things. A lot of the internet infrastructure uses aws. permalink fedilink source parent [–] TheFogan@programming.dev 9 points 1 year ago It's called amazon web services. In short there's 3 major cloud providers Amazon Web Services Google Cloud Platform Microsoft Azure All 3 basically do the same thing, real simplified version of it. it's kind of a giant pool of server resources that are leased to you by demand. So say if you are netflix and have 100 million people watching the day a new series drops, but then only have 1 million watching tuesday night, they pay based on how much is currently being used, rather than having to set everything to handle peak, but be idle 90% of the time. again yeah it's expensive for most purposes... and one can argue how bad it is on the whole, but it is kind of what most companies have been using for a lot of things for the last 15 years. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] countrypunk@slrpnk.net 15 points 1 year ago Amazon web services. They are one of the biggest providers for hosting things. A lot of the internet infrastructure uses aws. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 9 points 1 year ago It's called amazon web services. In short there's 3 major cloud providers Amazon Web Services Google Cloud Platform Microsoft Azure All 3 basically do the same thing, real simplified version of it. it's kind of a giant pool of server resources that are leased to you by demand. So say if you are netflix and have 100 million people watching the day a new series drops, but then only have 1 million watching tuesday night, they pay based on how much is currently being used, rather than having to set everything to handle peak, but be idle 90% of the time. again yeah it's expensive for most purposes... and one can argue how bad it is on the whole, but it is kind of what most companies have been using for a lot of things for the last 15 years. permalink fedilink source parent