‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS
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Signal was just one of many services brought down by the AWS outage.

After last week’s major Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage took Signal along with it, Elon Musk was quick to criticize the encrypted messaging app’s reliance on big tech. But Signal president Meredith Whittaker argues that the company didn’t have any other choice but to use AWS or another major cloud provider. “The problem here is […]

  • MotoAsh ( MotoAsh@piefed.social ) BannedEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Save some pennies to keep a single point of failure, then. I don’t care if these shit services prove how inept they are.

    It’s not like they’d have to keep equal amounts in all zones. It’s not like they’d have to have double the capacity. Your inability to imagine an economical solution without gross expenditure is… indeed, pathetic.

      • MotoAsh ( MotoAsh@piefed.social ) BannedEnglish
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        1 year ago

        lol! If you think it’s impossible, you’re yet again only proving how fucking pathetic and rather dim you are. Good job sucking dick for big tech.

        Failover between servers isn’t new. Failover between regions isn’t new. Failover between services is BARELY a step past that.

        Seriously, if you’re too stupid to understand that, that is very much a YOU problem.