But if everyone else is down too, you don't look so bad 🧠

It's mostly a skill issue for services that go down when USE-1 has issues in AWS - if you actually know your shit, then you don't get these kinds of issues.

Case in point: Netflix runs on AWS and experienced no issues during this thing.

And yes, it's scary that so many high-profile companies are this bad at the thing they spend all day doing

It is still a logical argument, especially for smaller shops. I mean, you can (as self-hosters know) set up automatic backups, failover systems, and all that, but it takes significant time & resources. Redundant internet connectivity? Redundant power delivery? Spare capacity to handle a 10x demand spike? Those are big expenses for small, even mid-sized business. No one really cares if your dentist's office is offline for a day, even if they have to cancel appointments because they can't process payments or records.

Meanwhile, theoretically, reliability is such a core function of cloud providers that they should pay for experts' experts and platinum standard infrastructure. It makes any problem they do have newsworthy.

I mean,it seems silly for orgs as big and internet-centric as Fortnite, Zoom, or forturne-500 bank to outsource their internet, and maybe this will be a lesson for them.

They zigged when we all zagged.

Decentralisation has always been the answer.

universal single point of failure.

If it's not a region failure, it's someone pushing untested slop into the devops pipeline and vaping a network config. So very fired.

yeah, so many things now use AWS in some way. So when AWS has a cold, the internet shivers

Well companies use not for relibibut to outsource responsibility. Even a medium sized company treated Windows like a subscription for many many years. People have been emailing files to themself since the start of email.

For companies moving everything to msa or aws just was the next step and didn't change day to operations

A single point of failure you pay them for.

sidekicks in '09. had so many users here affected.

never again.

My friend messaged me on Signal asking if Instructure (runs on AWS) was down. I got the message. That being said, it's scary that Signal's backbone depends on AWS

I have been able to use Signal like any other day. I haven’t seen any disruption in sending or receiving.

Started moving to Element/Matrix this weekend when I attended a protest and wanted to have some kind of communication, but also wanted to leave my primary phone at home. I was using a de-googled android fork and an e-sim, but being a data-only e-sim, I couldn't use Signal due to the phone number requirement.

Annoying to have try to get contacts to get another app, but at least it's decentralized and comes with the option of being self-hosted once I'm ready to tackle that.

Signal's love affair with big tech is deeply disturbing.

Podman😉

You guys don't selfhost a registry?

mirror.gcr.io is google's public mirror of dockerhub.

https://moonpiedumplings.github.io/blog/docker-registry/

Yeah I ran into this as well. Wondered why it needs a call to auth for public container images in the first place.

Oh god, that just 404s for me

This gif is audible

Well, you see, the mistake you are making is believing a single thing the stupid AWS status board says. It is always fucking lying, sometimes in new and creative ways.

I mean if your OS was "smart" as not to send IO to devices that indicate critical failure (e.g. by marking them read-only in the array?), and then thinks all devices have failed critically, wouldn't this happen in that kind of system as well..

If your health check is broken, then you might not notice that a service is down and you'll fail to deploy a replacement. Or the opposite, and you end up constantly replacing it, creating a "flapping" service.

Is there no way to check the doorbell video locally?

An Amazon employee misconfigures something and now your doorbell doesn't work

Does this break all the various security features that are the reason to use Signal in the first place?

You can connect Matrix with Signal?

Or some engineer decide today would be a great day to play with BGP

That's a good theory haha