Trying to log into AWS this morning for work, and while I’m waiting for the errors to clear out I stumbled upon this article. Thanks for posting!
Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues
Submitted 6 hours ago by otter@lemmy.ca to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/internet-outage-live-blog-october-20/
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bunnyBoy@pawb.social 1 hour ago
Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 50 minutes ago
See mr bossman my shitposting is a feature!
How else would i know AWS is down without doom scrolling through 30 bean memes.
: D
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Funny, my digitized collection movies and TV shows seems to be working just fine. :3
dukemirage@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Funny, people who spent ludicrous amounts of time and money to build up private libraries can’t pass the opportunity to be conceited.
BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I think they were just pointing out that this is the problem with subscription services. You own nothing and you’re screwed when the service goes down.
It really doesn’t take “ludicrous amounts of time and money” to build a private library. It’s interesting how the subscription giants have managed to change people’s perceptions - when you buy content to keep, you keep some of the value, but when you subscribe you’re just getting a time pass to use someone else’s library and won’t see that money again.
They sold the proposition on convenience when everything was in one place, but not it’s all fragmented it’s a waste of money.
And of course plenty of people are building media libraries for free by sailing the seas.
teft@piefed.social 2 hours ago
Ludicrous amounts of time and money? What do you think is involved with media piracy? lol
thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
lmao, buddy you can get a 10tb hard drive for like $200 and fit all the pirated media you want on it. that’s less money than two mainline subscriptions for a year.
Scavenger8294@feddit.org 1 hour ago
old server + 12 tb block acc. Costs like 15 cans of coke
foster@lemmy.hangdaan.com 4 hours ago
What’s even funnier are the people who spend lots of money on subscription services to own nothing. This outage just demonstrates who really owns their purchases.
SunSunFuego@lemmy.ml 4 hours ago
streaming service: 15-20€ per month per service me: vpn 5€ and a cheap hard drive
i’d be poorer with subscribing
balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 2 hours ago
It’s ok to be jealous, it’s a normal emotion.
SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
yep!
Damage@feddit.it 3 hours ago
Yeah I mean, give us this one satisfaction!
remon@ani.social 5 hours ago
I don’t wanna say I told you so, but …
Treczoks@lemmy.world 54 minutes ago
Hehe. Imagine managing your house in the cloud, and suddenly there is no heating, no light, all the “smart” appliances don’t work anymore, and the shower only produces cold water, because the shower thermostat got a “0” as return value when asking for the preferred temperature…
jjlinux@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
Sorry I missed this. I was too busy enjoying my library of media locally over Jellyfin.
architect@thelemmy.club 1 hour ago
Cloud confections dazzle the eye, but sugar highs eventually die.
Measure, simplify, shred the bloat; the sweetest stack is one you wrote.
(This sugar bill will sink the boat.)
Oompa Loompa doopity doo, I’ve got another problem for you…
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
Oh no, anyways
opens VLC to watch stuff I already downloaded a few days ago
BozeKnoflook@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
I suspect the big problem is that IAM (AWS authentication system) is affected and it is not decentralized, which is causing other systems worldwide to fail because the internal authentication is broken.
I can’t login to the AWS console to check on my stuff in the European zone, because the login goes through IAM in us-east-1 where all the authentication does.
eah@programming.dev 1 hour ago
It really highlights just how centralized so much of the internet is on like three companies (Amazon, Microsoft, and Google)
Cloudflare: What am I? Chopped liver?
CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 hours ago
There is a chrome addon that will “block” anything from AWS with the goal being you get to see how much of the world relies on it.
I’m starting to understand why some companies are starting to exit AWS and back to their own data centers.
7U5K3N@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour ago
That’s the ebb and flow of IT hosting / support.
On prem -> off prem -> on prem -> off prem
Same goes for off shore workers. Back and forth back and forth
Every company I’ve ever worked for has had that flip flop. :/
kungen@feddit.nu 1 hour ago
AWS doesn’t go down that often to impact such decisions I wouldn’t think… I think it’s more likely that these companies calculated that AWS isn’t worth the price for their workloads?
I’ve been at several companies where just a day’s worth of their AWS costs would be able to finance significantly stronger compute/storage, in addition to an administration team for all that. (Of course it’s not that simple, but you get what I mean)
CodenameDarlen@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Meanwhile, my piracy stream app with all those combined together is working fine…
Railcar8095@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Arrr no!
Anyway…
BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Looks like it was an Amazon AWS outage. Just geos to how how vulnerable the Internet is as it becomes ever more concentrated into the hands of the tech giants.
skisnow@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
The mindblowing part of it for me is that a company the size of Disney don’t seem to have the appetite to own and run their own servers.
These are the same people that managed to get two counties redistricted so that they could own their own city, and to this day literally buy the entire electorate by giving housing only to people who vote the way they’re told to.
makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
As someone who works in tech I occasionally point out to people that if Jeff Bezos decided to go full supervillain he could hold the internet hostage. If you disabled AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud individually the cascading failures on the various systems would take weeks to fix, which we might not have with a supply chain collapse. Genuinely, I think there’s a real chance it could trigger the collapse of human civilization
WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org 3 hours ago
And criminals.
maniclucky@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
That’s what they said.
fubarx@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
It’s perfecto
otter@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
Signal seems to be down as well?
BD89@lemmy.sdf.org 1 hour ago
Its back up now but that’s because Signal uses AWS.
I like signal and use it daily, but it is very strange that an app built for privacy and security doesn’t let you self host. I wonder about the reasoning behind that sometimes.
veeesix@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
It appears to be resolved now? I’m able to message people.
otter@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
It’s working on my end as well!
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 58 minutes ago
Is this why kerbalx.com is down?
greedytacothief@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour ago
Oh no! Wait I don’t watch shows anyway.
thepompe@ttrpg.network 6 hours ago
Good.
Chozo@fedia.io 5 hours ago
Why?
Trying2KnowMyself@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 hours ago
Why not?
chunes@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Maybe it will spur the internet to be more decentralized like it was supposed to be.
Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org 5 hours ago
parpol@programming.dev 5 hours ago
Can’t even launch docker containers because auth.docker.io is down too.
WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org 3 hours ago
Such great infrastructure we’ve relied on!
joejoe87577@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Postman is also down for me. Can’t sign in, or view workspaces locally.
Trying2KnowMyself@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 hours ago
winni@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
if the internet is down you wouldnt be able to post this
BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Funny. My Jellyfin instance is working fine. 😏