This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Funny, my digitized collection of movies and TV shows seems to be working just fine. :3
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)
There is a chrome addon that will "block" anything from AWS with the goal being you get to see how much of the world relies on it.
I'm starting to understand why some companies are starting to exit AWS and back to their own data centers.
That's the ebb and flow of IT hosting / support.
On prem -> off prem -> on prem -> off prem
Same goes for off shore workers. Back and forth back and forth
Every company I've ever worked for has had that flip flop. :/
AWS doesn't go down that often to impact such decisions I wouldn't think... I think it's more likely that these companies calculated that AWS isn't worth the price for their workloads?
I've been at several companies where just a day's worth of their AWS costs would be able to finance significantly stronger compute/storage, in addition to an administration team for all that. (Of course it's not that simple, but you get what I mean)
You pay a premium for the privilege of blaming someone else when the servers go down.
It really highlights just how centralized so much of the internet is on like three companies (Amazon, Microsoft, and Google)
Cloudflare: What am I? Chopped liver?
Oh no, anyways
opens VLC to watch stuff I already downloaded a few days ago
Sorry I missed this. I was too busy enjoying my library of media locally over Jellyfin.
Funny. My Jellyfin instance is working fine. 😏
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.
Looks like it was an Amazon AWS outage. Just geos to how how vulnerable the Internet is as it becomes ever more concentrated into the hands of the tech giants.
PirateBay reliable as ever....
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...
There's a good reason why I refuse to use cloud connected or Internet required "smart" devices.
It's essentially an excuse for shitty engineering.
If you really need a device to be cloud connected then it can also maintain local data when the remote server is down. Even better, it uses an open spec and you can standup your own server.
Thats what happens when a single company controls the flow
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
Basket, dropped
Eggs, broken
but how? isn't all that stuff all up in the cloud? The cloud is great, right?
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?
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.
Trying to log into AWS this morning for work, and while I'm waiting for the errors to clear out I stumbled upon this article. Thanks for posting!
Meanwhile, my piracy stream app with all those combined together is working fine...
Can't even launch docker containers because auth.docker.io is down too.
Postman is also down for me. Can't sign in, or view workspaces locally.
