schizoidman@lemmy.zip to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWSwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square110linkfedilinkarrow-up1442arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up1438arrow-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 · 3 months agomessage-square110linkfedilinkfile-text
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/51866711 Signal was just one of many services brought down by the AWS outage.
minus-squareCount042@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·3 months agoAnd yet a single availability zone in AWS going down caused an outage?
minus-squareSMillerNL@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·3 months agoYes, because scale is not the same as redundancy.
minus-squareJigglySackles@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months 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.