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Major AWS outage takes down Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat, and more

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Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨along_the_road@beehaw.org⁩ to ⁨technology@beehaw.org⁩

https://www.theverge.com/news/802486/aws-outage-alexa-fortnite-snapchat-offline

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  • scientificduck@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It is sort of depressing how concentrated or centralized the internet has gotten.

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  • along_the_road@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Onlyfans is also affected

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    • 30p87@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s the wake-up call; we need a fedi alternative!

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      • psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        SingularTurbine

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      • SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Pleasure or Joy Vine

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      • SmoochyPit@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Fediverse priority #1: Be able to talk to a paid actor pretending to be a model* Priority #2: Spend money to see the nudes they send in DMs

        *for major creators, I’m sure many minor/independent ones are genuine

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  • sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Signal is down too.

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    • sfera@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Works (again?) for me.

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      • sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Confirmed. Should be back up now

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  • Trying2KnowMyself@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    crabrave

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  • InevitableList@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If your alarm clock needs an internet connection then you need an old alarm clock.

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    • mistermodal@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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

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      • Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        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

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  • Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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

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    • Uniquitous@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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      • Rooster326@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        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.

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  • hopesdead@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I like how Fortnite is part of this.

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  • oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If fortnite goes down, I laugh.

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