I’m far from an expert, but it seems like if one cloud node goes down, pay hackers to slam everything with bot traffic and the system is brought to its knees.
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Lydia_K@lemmy.world 21 hours agoThe reality is that these multi region “clouds” are not nearly as resilient as they seem, and applications that have built on top of then even less so.
gdog05@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
kablez@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Correct. Plus it may not be as resilient as we think. Just because they’re billion dollar companies doesn’t mean they don’t follow the tradition of building systems with duct tape and a prayer.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 hours ago
In the age of MBA management, the removal of resilience such as fallback systems because “they’re doing nothing” is the norm.
Nowadays Engineering stuff isn’t done according to Engineering Principles if it conflicts with short term profit maximization.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
Also even if the digital infrastructure is resilient, what about the physical infrastructure? A couple sticks of Nobels great invention and viola there’s now a gaping hole in your power transmission infrastructure or in the building itself if access can be achieved.
kablez@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Not to mention the diminished teams who are now under resourced to handle their existing workloads. I’m sure they will do great as things spiral because the sloppy work of the AI has increased their workload, not reduced it. As the cracks begin to form on the human side of things, nothing could possibly go wrong. After all, the human element of any system is often the most secure. /s
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Everything runs on us-east-1 lol
Lydia_K@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
There are at least two services I know of off the top of my head that rely on us-east-1, so even if you are using them in another region if us-east-1 goes down, so does that service in all regions (and so does your app)