ininewcrow comments on The AWS Outage Bricked People’s $2,700 Smartbeds

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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 42 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's great because the internet was initially developed as a decentralized service so that if any part failed, the rest could maintain communications.

Over the past decade, corporations have been actively developing an internet of services that heavily rely on just a small set of services ... and if any of them go down, everything is lost.

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[–] orioler25@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Almost like capitalism seeks to dominate every element of material life and the internet is dependent on its material infrastructure to function.

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[–] prof@infosec.pub 5 points 1 year ago

Well... Afaik the AWS outage only affected a certain region. So the company could have just deployed their online service in two different regions for redundancy.

Or even better. Enable Offline Support 😐

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[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

It’s great because the internet was initially developed as a decentralized service so that if any part failed, the rest could maintain communications.

And no communication ability was lost. Just the service to which those communications were directed.

I mean, if it's a missile, it makes sense it won't accept launch orders if the service intended to give those is dead. Except for some dead hand ideas.

It's a redundant system for hierarchical applications.

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