Comment on ‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS
Evotech@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoApparently even if you are fully redundant there’s a lot of core services in US east 1 that you rely on
carrylex@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No, there isn’t. If you of course design your infrastructure correctly…
Evotech@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Wrong. Stuff that wasn’t even in us east went down too. Dns is global
carrylex@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Not sure if you are have read the AWS incident but the DNS records for the DynamoDB endpoint got ONLY accidentally removed in us-east-1 and not on the entire world.
All other regions worked perfectly fine.