It is sort of depressing how concentrated or centralized the internet has gotten.
Onlyfans is also affected
Signal is down too.
Works (again?) for me.
Confirmed. Should be back up now
It seems odd that it’s all on one aws server cluster. Wouldn’t they all automatically activate their backup server on another instance?
it’s us-east-1 that’s down, which is the one region with all the AWS services that aren’t easy to replicate, like DynamoDB, a major database service used by so so many companies out there. Its an all eggs in one basket kind of scenario. If it was any other region, we’d be fine.
cross-region failovers are a thing, but they’re expensive to maintain so not everyone does it. I am kinda surprised one region failure had this much impact though
If your alarm clock needs an internet connection then you need an old alarm clock.
You can get very fancy new alarm clocks that don’t need internet, skill issue. I’m convinced consumer grade IoT tech is some kind of irrational boomer exhibitionism thing
If I host my own smart home with zigbee devices, does that still count as consumer IoT tech? The zigbee devices themselves are the typical philips hue, ikea tradfi, etc. devices
No different kind of tech fetish (moving from public exhibitionism to being privately sealed in a latex suit)
I feel like the internet should probably be hosted in as many different servers and physical locations as possible. It seems alarming that these things happen as often as they do
It was only the one AWS region that went down, us-east-1. Unfortunately that’s the big kahuna. But they’ve got regions and availability zones around the globe. The services that went down due to the outage need to get some cross-region redundancy happening, but that’s the kind of thing that’s never a priority until the moment you need it.
Even the places that did have redundancy - didn’t have actually tested failovers.
Source: working at a place hosted in multiple locations. Didn’t mean shit. Somebody, if not many somebody’s, is definitely getting fired when the smoke clears.
I like how Fortnite is part of this.
If fortnite goes down, I laugh.
