When a handful of people own all the companies in the world, the whole world becomes a single point of failure.

games were affected online, plus apps, and then anyone in retail who does inventory, order writing.

But the bean counters said it was the best idea!

At my work there was a big push to get things out of our own isolated data centers and into AWS because we had some services that were really very vulnerable and not equipped to serve a global distributed audience well. AWS solved that problem for us and our devs liked working with it. However now our AWS bill is so high that we’re pushing everyone to reduce it. I guess that makes sense. We’re not going back to self-hosting, just optimizing and reducing. But it sure feels like whiplash from “get everything into AWS” to “we have too much in AWS.”

Typical Amazon undersells everyone else to remove competition. Then after everyone has gone under reminds you it is a terrible idea. Hopefully we see businesses get burnt more and determine it is better to self host, or even better yet not need half their services on "the cloud" anyways.

Figma

of your imagination?

Alright.....

crushes your balls with ginger root which makes them burn

Yeah, but proper failover and recovery requires additional infrastructure, and that costs money.

Hopefully a bunch of risk management people are writing I-told-you-so emails to C-suites right now.

So Roblox is the only of those companies that can handle proper region failover if us-east-1 shits the bed?

Either that, or the reports stopped coming in since it's a school day.

Roblox doesn't really lock down regions unless they are China. The game client can connect to any server they own. It naturally falls back to the server with the least issues without prompts and intervention. If for an even bigger example all US servers were to go offline, the client automatically redirects people to either Europe or Asia based on ping.

I think they're the only ones doing multi-cloud. If us-east-1 shits the bed, it's a bad day for AWS in general.

It really shows what a great life that we on the Fediverse are living, by making our tech independent to a degree from the largest tech providers.

They're big enough to be a utility and be nationalized!

Once upon a time they insisted that Amazon had independent decision making on their providers when they were needing new infrastructure and they "always decided that AWS suited them best."

Shockingly (/s), they stopped making that claim right about the same time they started admitting that their biggest users are all under Private Pricing Agreements.

Amazon is using their own hosting. AWS stands for Amazon Web Services. Or did I miss the joke?

A lot of AWS are wrappers over said in house solutions

And there’s a push to move off of those to proper AWS

It's not a full escape, just a path to escape.

Self hosting requires an immense amount of specialized knowledge and time...

I mean those are giant websites and organizations that exist in the mainstream, instructure is used by most schools nowadays

Which is random? I’ve only not heard of three: Instructure, fanduel, and chime.

All the ones I’ve heard of are quite massive companies and I would assume the others are too.

For some context, the issue was affecting AWS or Amazon Web Services, which is hosting for those other services (or parts of them), not an amazon app issue cascading to other services.

And I don't think an open source amazon app would work. Amazon is a lot more than just a webstore. They've got a massive logistics network plus warehouses and packing plants. I feel like an open source version of amazon's store would end up avoiding the corporate shit but would have all the negatives of amazon store without many of the positives.

Maybe the bots are run by AWS

I'd be surprised if none are run in AWS.