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[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 9 points 22 hours ago

If this was the work of a hacker then I never want to know their name.

[–] atmorous@lemmy.world 7 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

YO HO! Thieves and Beggars! Hoist the colors high!

[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 2 points 22 hours ago

Yo ho yo ho a pirate's life for me.

[–] Aneb@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Oh I didn't notice 🏴‍☠️

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

LoL, same. I didn't even know a problem existed til I opened up Lemmy this morning. 😂

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 42 points 1 day ago

Thats what happens when a single company controls the flow

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 100 points 1 day ago (3 children)

my jellyfin didn't go down

[–] InputZero@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Mine did... Although it's completely unrelated to AWS.

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[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I sure do love working at an MSP during times like this. Today fuckin sucked. Clients called in non-stop about things being broke AND our ticketing and remote support software was up and down all day

[–] Nikls94@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

People are too uneducated to just see what works and what doesn’t and add 1 and 1 together. If Google or WhatsApp work and Amazon doesn’t then it‘s definitely an Amazon problem.

[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (5 children)

At this point, I'm not surprised by people not having critical thinking skills. I encounter folks who do not think at all about anything on the daily.

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[–] NecroParagon@midwest.social 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Managed Service Provider, for those curious.

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[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 243 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (58 children)

Funny, my digitized collection of movies and TV shows seems to be working just fine. :3

[–] FalseTautology@lemmy.zip 1 points 23 hours ago

How strange my pirate streaming site seems to be fine also

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[–] poopkins@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (19 children)

Why do these companies still sign with AWS? Didn't they learn from the last two major outages in us-east? To say nothing of the deceptive business practices to obfuscate service utilization to overcharge businesses?

[–] sobchak@programming.dev 2 points 13 hours ago

For these large businesses, I imagine they get favorable deals, and all the executives probably know each other and scratch each-other's backs. For smaller businesses, AWS can decrease time-to-market, it's easy to find people who are already familiar with it, and is seen as less risky than going with some smaller provider. Though, I hate the "cloud" with a passion, and whenever I'm given the choice, I avoid it. It's quite a bit cheaper in the long run to avoid cloud providers too. On one long project I worked on, we hadn't had downtime on any of our VPSs longer than a couple minutes over the course of 8 years.

[–] oppy1984@lemdro.id 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My guess, the CFO showed that using AWS saves the company a few cents to a fraction of a cent per what ever unit they measure by. Those few cents to a fraction of a cent add up when multiplied by the millions or hundreds of millions of units and that savings makes the CEO look like they are more profitable and can give shareholders more profit.

When everything is about the quarterly results and the need to always show growth so the board and shareholders don't fire you, you'll cut corners and take the risk, as long as it has the potential to make you look good.

[–] Nikls94@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Bro casually and respectfully explaining enshittification over here.

[–] oppy1984@lemdro.id 5 points 1 day ago

I'm dead tired and can't think of a way to say this without sounding arrogant, seriously my brain is fried right now, so I'll just say I take that as a compliment and thank you.

[–] ManOMorphos@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

Airlines were one of the first to enshittify this way in the modern age. I think a lot of the current executives took this story to heart IMO.

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[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 43 points 2 days ago

PirateBay reliable as ever....

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 68 points 2 days ago

Funny. My Jellyfin instance is working fine. 😏

[–] albsen@lemmy.world 48 points 2 days ago (2 children)

its us-east-1 as usual, I guess its that time of the year. and the companies haven't changed either... so, basically the IT guys told the budget approvers we need more money they calculated it and said, no. see you next year for another one.

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[–] BozeKnoflook@lemmy.world 113 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

I suspect the big problem is that IAM (AWS authentication system) is affected and it is not decentralized, which is causing other systems worldwide to fail because the internal authentication is broken.

I can't login to the AWS console to check on my stuff in the European zone, because the login goes through IAM in us-east-1 where all the authentication does.

It really highlights just how centralized so much of the internet is on like three companies (Amazon, Microsoft, and Google)

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[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Basket, dropped

Eggs, broken

[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 28 points 1 day ago (3 children)

but how? isn't all that stuff all up in the cloud? The cloud is great, right?

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[–] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 68 points 2 days ago

Sorry I missed this. I was too busy enjoying my library of media locally over Jellyfin.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 42 points 2 days ago (36 children)

Hehe. Imagine managing your house in the cloud, and suddenly there is no heating, no light, all the "smart" appliances don't work anymore, and the shower only produces cold water, because the shower thermostat got a "0" as return value when asking for the preferred temperature...

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