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‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago by lemmydev2@infosec.pub [B] to c/pulse_of_truth@infosec.pub

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After last week’s major Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage took Signal along with it, Elon Musk was quick to criticize the encrypted messaging app’s reliance on big tech. But Signal president Meredith Whittaker argues that the company didn’t have any other choice but to use AWS or another major cloud provider. “The problem here is […]

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[–] sheogorath@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Azure and GCP has less uptime than AWS. I guess you could roll with one of the Chinese providers like Alibaba Cloud or Tencent Cloud.

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