Selfhosted

But if everyone else is down too, you don't look so bad 🧠

It is still a logical argument, especially for smaller shops. I mean, you can (as self-hosters know) set up automatic backups, failover systems, and all that, but it takes significant time & resources. Redundant internet connectivity? Redundant power delivery? Spare capacity to handle a 10x demand spike? Those are big expenses for small, even mid-sized business. No one really cares if your dentist's office is offline for a day, even if they have to cancel appointments because they can't process payments or records.

Meanwhile, theoretically, reliability is such a core function of cloud providers that they should pay for experts' experts and platinum standard infrastructure. It makes any problem they do have newsworthy.

I mean,it seems silly for orgs as big and internet-centric as Fortnite, Zoom, or forturne-500 bank to outsource their internet, and maybe this will be a lesson for them.

They zigged when we all zagged.

Decentralisation has always been the answer.

universal single point of failure.

If it's not a region failure, it's someone pushing untested slop into the devops pipeline and vaping a network config. So very fired.

yeah, so many things now use AWS in some way. So when AWS has a cold, the internet shivers

My friend messaged me on Signal asking if Instructure (runs on AWS) was down. I got the message. That being said, it's scary that Signal's backbone depends on AWS

I have been able to use Signal like any other day. I haven’t seen any disruption in sending or receiving.

It should be seized by the ~~government~~ people and mercilessly decentralized.

AWS aggressively pursues high priced and years-long spending commitments with large customers, and they incentivize it with huge discounts for doing so.

And when AWS does this they intentionally incentivize these large customers to migrate existing workloads away from other cloud service providers as well, going so far as to offer assistance in doing so.

Why do we place so much reliance on one mega company? This level of importance.

Because it's cheaper and (in broad terms) more reliable than everybody having a data centre.

It should be seized by the government.

Oh yeah, what could possibly go wrong if the US government owned Amazon!

Do you really want someone like the magahats having control over something like that?

You guys don't selfhost a registry?

Podman😉

Or some engineer decide today would be a great day to play with BGP

Is there no way to check the doorbell video locally?

An Amazon employee misconfigures something and now your doorbell doesn't work

Well, you see, the mistake you are making is believing a single thing the stupid AWS status board says. It is always fucking lying, sometimes in new and creative ways.

Can recommend Jellyfin, I use it for both music and tv/movies. Not sure on the chat bit, there are so many option it could get a long list

OMG, IMDB too