Comment on ‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS

• boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The big 3 also offer disgustingly fast interconnection. Google, Amazon and Microsoft lay their own undersea fiber for better performance.

  If willing to sacrifice a bit of everything, OVH has North-American and European locations, as well as one in India, one in Singapore and one in Australia. They’re building a few more in India, one in Dubai, two in Africa, one in NZ and 3 in South America. Once they add a few more on top of those, that’s damn near worldwide coverage too. And OVH is a French company, so the US government has less leverage over it than Amazon.

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• Count042@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And yet a single availability zone in AWS caused an outage?

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  • SMillerNL@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yes, because scale is not the same as redundancy.

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  • JigglySackles@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Signal would need to pay for multi region redundancy and build a programmatic way of swapping regions when their primary region is down.

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