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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/51866711

Signal was just one of many services brought down by the AWS outage.

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[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago (8 children)

What reason do they give for only wanting to use those three cloud providers? There are many others.

[–] SMillerNL@lemmy.world 60 points 1 month ago (4 children)
[–] Count042@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

And yet a single availability zone in AWS going down caused an outage?

[–] SMillerNL@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Yes, because scale is not the same as redundancy.

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