schizoidman@lemmy.zip to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWSwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square105fedilinkarrow-up1432arrow-down15file-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/51866711 Signal was just one of many services brought down by the AWS outage.
minus-squareCount042@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·edit-21 day agoAnd yet a single availability zone in AWS going down caused an outage?
minus-squareSMillerNL@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 day agoYes, because scale is not the same as redundancy.
And yet a single availability zone in AWS going down caused an outage?
Yes, because scale is not the same as redundancy.