The company I work for is an Azure shop. However, our provider for customer 2fa tokens uses AWS.... So still in trouble.

Once Larry Ellison owns TikTok he's going to be babysitting all the teenagers and a whole bunch of other people!

Sure, but online services can certainly leverage multiple modules, from multiple companies, hosted in multiple places. So maybe your site mostly works fine, but a key aspect of it is broken.

Lemmy seemed fine

Federated, open source

Reddit did not

Centralized, corporate

Amen to that, good thing though. Got me to learn what Lemmy was. Apparently I've been under a rock.

Can confirm, about 10 years ago, the company I worked for migrated to AWS, and I managed the transition. We planned everything meticulously so that there would be no downtime, and used it as excuse to fix a lot of tech debt. No one was supposed to even notice the cutover, and when we did it, I expected the only feedback to be that things seemed faster and were working as expected. A few hours later, we get a complaint from an Account Manager for Walmart that they can't access the platform at all. There was a lot of confusion and back and forth, turns out their IT department had an allow list or something in the corporate DNS to not resolve to AWS owned IPs unless approved. We eventually got them to add our domain to their allowlist, but it seemed insane that they would spend the effort to implement and maintain that level of control.

No. Everyone always focuses on the flashy stuff like datacenters but the truth is that the most vulnerable, overtaxed, and underfunded weak-spot for the United States is the electric grid.

I feel like you got it backwards. Letting them run is doing more damage than turning them off would.

If the way someone goes to war with the US is by freeing us from the overly-centralized landlords of the Internet, maybe whoever they are isn't so bad.

I'm sure there's a self hosted option but no way in hell it's as popular as it is without being a turnkey solution. Most smaller districts wouldn't touch anything self hosted with a 10 foot pole. They don't have the resources.

I thought that too until today, it's never clear until a quarter of the Internet is down randomly.

There's so much vendor lock in with AWS, migrating to another provider over an outage even lasting 24h would be a tough sell. This isn't unique to AWS either, each of the cloud vendors have their own lock in and their own problems. If you had the money you could run in multiple clouds, but for most businesses who were only running in a single region, I can't imagine they'd choose this option.

Half the articles I needed to read couldn't be accessed due to aws. I figured I would grade assignments in the mean time, up until I learned e-learning was down as well. Nothing came back up till about 3.

Thanks for asking. How was your day? Was it affected by the AWS outage?

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