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If websites are slow for you, this is why, AWS is breaking everything (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 4 days ago by StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] magnolia_mayhem@lemmy.world 28 points 3 days ago (11 children)

Hey! Great idea! Let's make all of the internet rely on one service from one evil company! What could go wrong?

[–] grahamja@reddthat.com 8 points 3 days ago

Typical Amazon undersells everyone else to remove competition. Then after everyone has gone under reminds you it is a terrible idea. Hopefully we see businesses get burnt more and determine it is better to self host, or even better yet not need half their services on "the cloud" anyways.

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[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 140 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

Amazon sneezes, the whole internet catches a cold.

Im still seeing services up/down the entire day at work. Services that are not even AWS like Azure are slow for some reason (probably businesses failing over to other infa). Its crazy.

None of our in office infa is having issues. Managers are talking about fail-overs all day lol.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 85 points 4 days ago (1 children)

When a handful of people own all the companies in the world, the whole world becomes a single point of failure.

[–] PoopMonster@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Soon: "Welcome to Amazon, I love you."

[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world 29 points 4 days ago (5 children)

There are some downstream / knock on effects going on which can be explained...but I can't help but wonder if today's story is bigger than just AWS. AWS saying it was an outage of a "few hours" for DynamoDB and DNS...and that doesn't line up all that great with what people are reporting in the wild . I'm not trying to start a conspiracy theory, just wondering what the post mortems will tell us, if anything. Obviously the suits want to keep embarrassing fuckups downplayed as much as possible.

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 19 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Its crazy, we are seeing unrelated services stop sending emails, issues with DNS, all sorts of strange stuff.

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[–] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 118 points 4 days ago (4 children)

It's almost as if centralizing everything is fucking stupid.

[–] innermachine@lemmy.world 21 points 4 days ago (1 children)

But the bean counters said it was the best idea!

[–] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 5 points 3 days ago

Accountants shouldn’t be allowed to make decisions beyond their personal lives. MBAs even more so

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[–] cheers_queers@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 days ago

even the websites for local health systems have been going down. At this point if we have an event like Y2K was supposed to be, we are so fucked lol

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 59 points 4 days ago

Maybe it was a bad idea for society to put 90% of the internet on one company's infrastructure.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 75 points 4 days ago (4 children)

So Roblox is the only of those companies that can handle proper region failover if us-east-1 shits the bed? You young ops have gotten soft! Learn to live by ChaosMonkey or die by the Gorilla.

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 52 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Yeah, but proper failover and recovery requires additional infrastructure, and that costs money.

Hopefully a bunch of risk management people are writing I-told-you-so emails to C-suites right now.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 41 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah but not to worry, C-suites have pretty good filtering rules in place to never read them. Saves time, really.

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[–] Chozo@fedia.io 24 points 4 days ago

So Roblox is the only of those companies that can handle proper region failover if us-east-1 shits the bed?

Either that, or the reports stopped coming in since it's a school day.

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[–] Rooty@lemmy.world 48 points 4 days ago

Let's take a decentralized network and centalize it! Nothing will surely go wrong.

[–] darvocet@infosec.pub 67 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Jesus Amazon is a big enough company they should be doing their own hosting not using AWS.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 56 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They're big enough to be a utility and be nationalized!

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[–] ignirtoq@fedia.io 19 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Amazon is using their own hosting. AWS stands for Amazon Web Services. Or did I miss the joke?

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[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 46 points 4 days ago

It's kind of telling when Amazon services like Ring, Prime Video, and Alexa failed over pretty quickly, but everything else just didnt.

There's no conspiracy here. It's just highlighting that Amazon could prepare for AWS outages in a region, but since everything auth related was on us-east-1, everything else went down.

Shortcuts are costly.

[–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I am grateful that my past me (from few months ago) decided to study Slavic philology, instead of getting stupid tech job. I hate modern tech, including anything from big corporations.

I am also glad that I've switched to Linux (Debian ftw) to escape software enshittification.

[–] magnolia_mayhem@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's not a full escape, just a path to escape.

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[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 days ago (5 children)

What are these random fucking websites though

[–] StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 days ago

I mean those are giant websites and organizations that exist in the mainstream, instructure is used by most schools nowadays

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[–] thatonecoder@lemmy.ca 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

…and I did not even notice it, aside from the news here.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 days ago

It really shows what a great life that we on the Fediverse are living, by making our tech independent to a degree from the largest tech providers.

[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 28 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Figma balls wheeeyyyy

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[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 25 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Why does Amazon use AWS?

I thought they had an in-house solution.

[–] criss_cross@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago

A lot of AWS are wrappers over said in house solutions

And there’s a push to move off of those to proper AWS

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