Signal was just one of many services brought down by the AWS outage.

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[–] 20 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Right, OK, but Signal sustains itself on charity.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    I don't think that's necessarily incompatible with what I suggested. They could just leave the backup servers offline until they're actually needed which shouldn't cost them anything (or at least not much; some cloud providers charge for a VM's storage usage regardless).

    Assuming that Signal's servers were designed by competent engineers, the engineering cost to make a change like this shouldn't be that bad. Though judging by Whittaker's comments, that may be a bad assumption.

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