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

• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It is, compared to AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Here’s 2024 revenue to give an idea of scale:

  • Akamai - $4B, Linode itself is ~3100M
  • AWS - $107B
  • Azure - ~$75B
  • Google Cloud - ~$43B

  The smallest on this this list has 10x the revenue of Akamai.

  Here are a few other providers for reference:

  • Hetzner (what I use) - €367M
  • Digital Ocean - $692.9M
  • Vultr (my old host) - not public, but estimates are ~$37M

  I’m arguing they could put together a solution with these smaller providers. That takes more work, but you’re rewarded with more resilience and probably lower hosting costs. Once you have two providers in your infra, it’s easier to add another. Maybe start with using them for disaster recovery, then slowly diversify the hosting portfolio.

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  • Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    10% the size of google is decent. If I had ten percent of a tech giant’s reach in any particular sector I would consider myself significant but I get where you ae coming from

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