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If websites are slow for you, this is why, AWS is breaking everything (sh.itjust.works)

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[-] mesamunefire@piefed.social 139 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Amazon sneezes, the whole internet catches a cold.

Im still seeing services up/down the entire day at work. Services that are not even AWS like Azure are slow for some reason (probably businesses failing over to other infa). Its crazy.

None of our in office infa is having issues. Managers are talking about fail-overs all day lol.

[-] tomiant@piefed.social 86 points 3 months ago

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

[-] PoopMonster@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Soon: "Welcome to Amazon, I love you."

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[-] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 121 points 3 months ago

It's almost as if centralizing everything is fucking stupid.

[-] innermachine@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago

But the bean counters said it was the best idea!

[-] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 5 points 3 months ago

Accountants shouldn’t be allowed to make decisions beyond their personal lives. MBAs even more so

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[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 75 points 3 months ago

So Roblox is the only of those companies that can handle proper region failover if us-east-1 shits the bed? You young ops have gotten soft! Learn to live by ChaosMonkey or die by the Gorilla.

[-] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 52 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 41 points 3 months ago

Yeah but not to worry, C-suites have pretty good filtering rules in place to never read them. Saves time, really.

[-] prex@aussie.zone 9 points 3 months ago

And plausible deniability.

[-] Chozo@fedia.io 24 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

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[-] darvocet@infosec.pub 66 points 3 months ago

Jesus Amazon is a big enough company they should be doing their own hosting not using AWS.

[-] tomiant@piefed.social 55 points 3 months ago

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

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 months ago

And should be

[-] ignirtoq@fedia.io 19 points 3 months ago

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

[-] darvocet@infosec.pub 45 points 3 months ago

Miss

[-] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 months ago

I was confused too, but I'm still glad you didn't add the /s because that always kills the joke.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

I don't always downvote posts that use /s, but I do always downvote posts that complain about someone not using it.

Sarcasm is ok but deadpan is where it's at.

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[-] kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 months ago

I for one don't think you missed anything

[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 59 points 3 months ago

Maybe it was a bad idea for society to put 90% of the internet on one company's infrastructure.

[-] Rooty@lemmy.world 49 points 3 months ago

Let's take a decentralized network and centalize it! Nothing will surely go wrong.

[-] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 46 points 3 months ago

It's kind of telling when Amazon services like Ring, Prime Video, and Alexa failed over pretty quickly, but everything else just didnt.

There's no conspiracy here. It's just highlighting that Amazon could prepare for AWS outages in a region, but since everything auth related was on us-east-1, everything else went down.

Shortcuts are costly.

[-] magnolia_mayhem@lemmy.world 29 points 3 months ago

Hey! Great idea! Let's make all of the internet rely on one service from one evil company! What could go wrong?

[-] grahamja@reddthat.com 8 points 3 months ago

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.

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[-] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 28 points 3 months ago

Figma balls wheeeyyyy

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 7 points 3 months ago

Figma

of your imagination?

[-] arschflugkoerper@feddit.org 6 points 3 months ago

It seems that there is not a single original thought in that head of mine.

[-] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 4 points 3 months ago

doesn't matter bro, they're your thoughts and that's what makes them awesome 😊

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[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 25 points 3 months ago

Why does Amazon use AWS?

I thought they had an in-house solution.

[-] criss_cross@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

A lot of AWS are wrappers over said in house solutions

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

[-] thatonecoder@lemmy.ca 14 points 3 months ago

…and I did not even notice it, aside from the news here.

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] Matriks404@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I am grateful that my past me (from few months ago) decided to study Slavic philology, instead of getting stupid tech job. I hate modern tech, including anything from big corporations.

I am also glad that I've switched to Linux (Debian ftw) to escape software enshittification.

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[-] thepompe@ttrpg.network 10 points 3 months ago

The cloud was a scam for people with more money than sense.

Most people hosting things on the cloud, like Fediverse services, would be better off selfhosting and buying the hardware themselves.

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[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Bottom left

figma ballz hahaha gotem

Edit: ohh noooo I just saw PhobosAnomaly’s post, I am so slow

[-] cheers_queers@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 months ago

even the websites for local health systems have been going down. At this point if we have an event like Y2K was supposed to be, we are so fucked lol

[-] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 months ago

What are these random fucking websites though

[-] StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 months ago

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

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[-] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 months ago

Shit, none of my websites are slow. Fuck Amazon

[-] minorkeys@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Diversity is a strength when things go bad.

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