schizoidman@lemmy.zip to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months ago‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWSwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square11linkfedilinkarrow-up1205arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up1203arrow-down1external-link‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWSwww.theverge.comschizoidman@lemmy.zip to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square11linkfedilinkfile-text
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/51866711 Signal was just one of many services brought down by the AWS outage.
minus-squareSMillerNL@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·4 months agoScale, they need worldwide coverage. https://mastodon.world/@Mer__edith/115445705126997025
minus-squareCount042@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·4 months agoAnd yet a single availability zone in AWS going down caused an outage?
minus-squareSMillerNL@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·4 months agoYes, because scale is not the same as redundancy.
minus-squareJigglySackles@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoSignal would need to pay for multi region redundancy and build a programmatic way of swapping regions when their primary region is down.
Scale, they need worldwide coverage.
https://mastodon.world/@Mer__edith/115445705126997025
And yet a single availability zone in AWS going down caused an outage?
Yes, because scale is not the same as redundancy.
Signal would need to pay for multi region redundancy and build a programmatic way of swapping regions when their primary region is down.