schizoidman@lemmy.zip to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 days ago‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWSwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square112linkfedilinkarrow-up1445arrow-down14file-textcross-posted to: privacy@lemmy.mltechnology@lemmy.zip
arrow-up1441arrow-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 · 12 days agomessage-square112linkfedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: privacy@lemmy.mltechnology@lemmy.zip
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/51866711 Signal was just one of many services brought down by the AWS outage.
minus-squareCount042@lemmy.mlcakelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down3·edit-211 days agoAnd yet a single availability zone in AWS going down caused an outage?
minus-squareSMillerNL@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·11 days agoYes, because scale is not the same as redundancy.
minus-squareJigglySackles@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 days agoSignal would need to pay for multi region redundancy and build a programmatic way of swapping regions when their primary region is down.
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.