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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 135 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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 85 points 10 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 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

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[-] HertzDentalBar 118 points 10 months ago

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

[-] innermachine@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago

But the bean counters said it was the best idea!

[-] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 5 points 10 months ago

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

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[-] darvocet@infosec.pub 72 points 10 months ago

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

[-] tomiant@piefed.social 55 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 12 points 10 months ago

And should be

[-] ignirtoq@fedia.io 23 points 10 months ago

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

[-] darvocet@infosec.pub 48 points 10 months ago

Miss

[-] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 10 points 10 months ago

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

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[-] kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 10 months ago

I for one don't think you missed anything

[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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.

[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 72 points 10 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 49 points 10 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 40 points 10 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 8 points 10 months ago

And plausible deniability.

[-] Chozo@fedia.io 23 points 10 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.

[-] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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.

[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 55 points 10 months ago

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

[-] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 44 points 10 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 10 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 7 points 10 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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[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 27 points 10 months ago

Why does Amazon use AWS?

I thought they had an in-house solution.

[-] criss_cross@lemmy.world 15 points 10 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

[-] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 26 points 10 months ago

Figma balls wheeeyyyy

[-] arschflugkoerper@feddit.org 6 points 10 months ago

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

[-] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 4 points 10 months ago

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

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[-] thatonecoder@lemmy.ca 16 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 7 points 10 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.

[-] thepompe@ttrpg.network 14 points 10 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.

[-] artyom@piefed.social 4 points 10 months ago

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

[-] thepompe@ttrpg.network 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It really doesn't, and certainly not more than running something on AWS.

In fact, hosting on cloud infrastructure adds another layer of complexity.

I stand by my original assertion.

[-] artyom@piefed.social 4 points 10 months ago

You're just wrong...

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[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Bottom left

figma ballz hahaha gotem

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

[-] SCmSTR 7 points 10 months ago

What are these random fucking websites though

[-] StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 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 7 points 10 months ago

Shit, none of my websites are slow. Fuck Amazon

[-] cheers_queers@lemmy.zip 5 points 10 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

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