Following the outage of Amazon services, specifically AWS, I posed an open question with two possible answers: Have we placed too much importance on cloud services?

A) It's just one service going down

B) Yes, we depend too much on cloud services

1 month ago · 👍 travisshears

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the real problem is that half the internet is hosted on AWS. THis kind of centralization does not engender network resiliency. · 1 month ago

I was afk for all of that day, and didn't find out what happened until later. Sorry if the outage wrecked your day. fwiw, Offline = the ultimate digital minimalism. · 1 month ago

D) we should not put everything online just because we can · 1 month ago

B.

Though it was a nice day off for some as corprate VPNs also went down. · 1 month ago

C - neither? Or both? :)

In terms of efficiency, it's probably better to have a few major companies running a majority of the server hardware for everyone else. Also, companies would likely face more downtime running their own servers due to updates, configuration issues, etc, but it wouldn't make the international news when it happened.

Meanwhile, in terms of the overall health and resilience of the internet, it may be better to have a million individual servers spread across their own closets somewhere. · 1 month ago

B - it is an obvious counter to the illusion that cloud services removes 'single points of failure'. While I am sure that is true for the company using the cloud. It appear the host of companies relying on the cloud now know they're completely helpless in mass when things like AWS go out unexpectedly. · 1 month ago