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]
arrow-up1427arrow-down1external-link‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWSwww.theverge.comschizoidman@lemmy.zip to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square105fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/51866711 Signal was just one of many services brought down by the AWS outage.
minus-squareEvotech@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·1 day agoApparently even if you are fully redundant there’s a lot of core services in US east 1 that you rely on
minus-squarecarrylex@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down8·1 day agoNo, there isn’t. If you of course design your infrastructure correctly…
minus-squareEvotech@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down2·1 day agoWrong. Stuff that wasn’t even in us east went down too. Dns is global
minus-squarecarrylex@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·13 hours agoNot sure if you are have read the AWS incident but the DNS records for the DynamoDB endpoint got ONLY accidentally removed in us-east-1 and not on the entire world. All other regions worked perfectly fine.
Apparently even if you are fully redundant there’s a lot of core services in US east 1 that you rely on
No, there isn’t. If you of course design your infrastructure correctly…
Wrong. Stuff that wasn’t even in us east went down too. Dns is global
Not sure if you are have read the AWS incident but the DNS records for the DynamoDB endpoint got ONLY accidentally removed in us-east-1 and not on the entire world.
All other regions worked perfectly fine.