Post AzRbQ9XU50IMUSiZUG by wtrmt@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #AzQmP9lkdwxDFh9uO8 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-21T10:25:45Z
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Amazon's stock didn't even flinch from that big outage. I guess no one thinks many customers will move to alternatives and some probably were just impressed by their near monopoly. booooooo
(DIR) Post #AzQmfeYJxX3lMHk7yy by alda@topspicy.social
2025-10-21T10:28:42Z
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@futurebird They can't because they're stuck there.Besides, in a corporate setting, cloud hosting (and any other form of outsourcing) is an excellent way to shift the blame somewhere else.
(DIR) Post #AzQnLLO5bXpy57pxQG by xinit@mastodon.coffee
2025-10-21T10:36:13Z
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@futurebirdMaybe all the exchanges run on aws so didn't process orders.
(DIR) Post #AzQnNHF1zTtRnmWPxo by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-21T10:36:37Z
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@xinit 🤣
(DIR) Post #AzQoJA5ClPYQOcWkQS by NatureMC@mastodon.online
2025-10-21T10:46:54Z
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@futurebird Perhaps in the USA. Perhaps at the stock market becuase of missing alternatives.Here in Europe, our governments work hard on getting more independent from these monopoly clouds and especially from the USA. But as they have neglected own resources for years, such structures do not build themselves over night.After yesterday's news, European media and politicians ask how to move away. This is only one example from GB: https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/amazon-outage-aws-uk-it-infrastructure-b2848869.html
(DIR) Post #AzQsi8TqG7CqTwDOT2 by noplasticshower@infosec.exchange
2025-10-21T11:36:22Z
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@futurebird just look at the math. They were down for what 3 hours? And can you remember when that last happened? Right. Their uptime is beyond impressive. AWS is a beast.
(DIR) Post #AzR25DrbJFp9QRPZnk by raganwald@social.bau-ha.us
2025-10-21T13:21:17Z
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@futurebird Tell me more about efficient markets in the age of crony capitalism and deregulation of monopolies?
(DIR) Post #AzR2Mgs4iGheJWxkOm by willyyam@mastodon.social
2025-10-21T13:24:31Z
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@futurebird Seeing how much of the Internet is affected is a _positive_ market signal for investors. "Everyone is using this, so it will take a long time to lose value."
(DIR) Post #AzRFBBnfC30gAQkGsy by mansr@society.oftrolls.com
2025-10-21T15:48:06Z
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@futurebird The uptime over a year for each customer is still very good. I doubt moving to another provider would substantially improve it, certainly not without costing a lot more. The incident only looks bad because many services were down at the same time.
(DIR) Post #AzRaFcZngB6pPODQG0 by adrake@sfba.social
2025-10-21T18:38:08Z
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@noplasticshower @futurebird things weren't totally back to normal in us-east-1 for nearly 12 hours.Even 3 hours of downtime is really bad. If you're up over the rest of the month, that's 99.6% uptime. Typical availability targets for a SaaS company are more like 99.9% (43 minutes of downtime a month), 99.99% being achievable if you are careful.AWS gives SLAs of 99.99% for a number of single-region services, and 99.5% for individual EC2 instances. This outage took their overall availability for an entire region from the level of a careful highly-available service to that of a single host with no redundancy. Anyone who relied on those SLAs got screwed, and Amazon is going to be getting a lot of requests for significant refunds per the terms of those SLAs.AWS in general is a beast but anyone who's worked with it at scale for a long time knows us-east-1 is best avoided, due to a long history of incidents like this (though usually not quite as bad).
(DIR) Post #AzRbQ9XU50IMUSiZUG by wtrmt@mastodon.social
2025-10-21T19:57:20Z
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@futurebird as UX Designer, one of the most important tools I use is Figma, which became unstable yesterday for most of the day.Today I started looking for self hosted alternatives: #penpotAWS may not be affected, but its clients will.