Comment on The aws outage is so funny, I can see which companies are amazon scums.

• Flatfire@lemmy.ca ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s not really fair, I think. Smaller organizations are especially dispositioned here. Think small businesses, charities, local municipal services, etc. Small IT budgets, low staff (if any) and just enough to pad out a subscription cost to a service provider that fits their needs.

  AWS is an incredibly low cost solution, and it’s probably where most of these low cost services point themselves at when building platforms at scale. Not everyone can build and maintain a datacentre or home server for their every need.

  This isn’t to say that there are definitely idiots who pad their resume by chanting a prayer to SaaS and boasting about having moved their company to the “cloud” via a cheap and unreliable AWS rehoster, before failing upwards though.

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  • darvocet@infosec.pub ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Fine, most of them are fucking idiots. Know where your infrastructure is people! Whois your IP.

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    • itsprobablyfine@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Do you know what power stations feed your electrical circuit? Do you know which transformers are most critical to keep you in service? Do you know who manufactured them?

      Do you know where your water comes from? Which facilities treat it? How it’s treated?

      Can you name your senators, house rep, state senators, state rep, and local officials?

      Everyone can’t know everything. I doubt you do, but I wouldn’t call you a fucking idiot for that. I would call you a fucking idiot for being such a small-minded asshole though. You’re not the smartest person in the room, and even if you were, you still wouldn’t understand how 99% of human technology works. We’re in this together and we lean on each other. That’s the beauty and curse of being human

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      • darvocet@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Sounds like you’ve taken offense. Don’t know who your host is huh? If you work in IT doing websites you gotta know same basics. Sorry if my statements don’t align with your world view.

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