schizoidman@lemmy.zip to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWSwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square90fedilinkarrow-up1388arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up1386arrow-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 · 1 day agomessage-square90fedilinkfile-text
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-up1·edit-220 hours agoAnd yet a single availability zone in AWS going down caused an outage?
minus-squareSMillerNL@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·16 hours 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.