If this was the work of a hacker then I never want to know their name.
Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues
Submitted 5 months ago by otter@lemmy.ca to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/internet-outage-live-blog-october-20/
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ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 5 months ago
Aneb@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Oh I didn’t notice 🏴☠️
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 5 months ago
Same.
buddascrayon@lemmy.world 5 months ago
LoL, same. I didn’t even know a problem existed til I opened up Lemmy this morning. 😂
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Thats what happens when a single company controls the flow
poopkins@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Why do these companies still sign with AWS? Didn’t they learn from the last two major outages in us-east? To say nothing of the deceptive business practices to obfuscate service utilization to overcharge businesses?
sobchak@programming.dev 5 months ago
For these large businesses, I imagine they get favorable deals, and all the executives probably know each other and scratch each-other’s backs. For smaller businesses, AWS can decrease time-to-market, it’s easy to find people who are already familiar with it, and is seen as less risky than going with some smaller provider. Though, I hate the “cloud” with a passion, and whenever I’m given the choice, I avoid it. It’s quite a bit cheaper in the long run to avoid cloud providers too. On one long project I worked on, we hadn’t had downtime on any of our VPSs longer than a couple minutes over the course of 8 years.
oppy1984@lemdro.id 5 months ago
My guess, the CFO showed that using AWS saves the company a few cents to a fraction of a cent per what ever unit they measure by. Those few cents to a fraction of a cent add up when multiplied by the millions or hundreds of millions of units and that savings makes the CEO look like they are more profitable and can give shareholders more profit.
When everything is about the quarterly results and the need to always show growth so the board and shareholders don’t fire you, you’ll cut corners and take the risk, as long as it has the potential to make you look good.
Nikls94@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Bro casually and respectfully explaining enshittification over here.
echodot@feddit.uk 5 months ago
AWS has outages. So the answer to your question is obvious, AWS is not an advantage over any other solution.
DoPeopleLookHere@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Can you name a more reliable alternative? With citations?
Because every major cloud provider has outages. On prem clouds also have outages. Everyone does.
CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Can you name a more reliable alternative?
Stop using hyperscalers. Then when an outage does occur, it doesn’t take down half the internet, and instead only affects a much smaller subset of services.
LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I sure do love working at an MSP during times like this. Today fuckin sucked. Clients called in non-stop about things being broke AND our ticketing and remote support software was up and down all day
Nikls94@lemmy.world 5 months ago
People are too uneducated to just see what works and what doesn’t and add 1 and 1 together. If Google or WhatsApp work and Amazon doesn’t then it‘s definitely an Amazon problem.
LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 5 months ago
At this point, I’m not surprised by people not having critical thinking skills. I encounter folks who do not think at all about anything on the daily.
NecroParagon@midwest.social 5 months ago
Managed Service Provider, for those curious.
Tikiporch@lemmy.world 5 months ago
As in “Fuck Managed Service Providers.”
MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I think it’s just called BO Max these days
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I’m not gonna dog on HBO out of all of them. They had been doing this subscription for premium content thing way before Netflix, and were the reason why we have so many amazing shows, some of which regularly male top 10 lists of all time.
They still have some good shows but its hard ro justify the cost, as was always the case.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 5 months ago
My biggest issue with them is their shit streaming quality.
CaptKoala@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Didn’t have any issues with my plex, must be an isolated issue.
vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
but how? isn’t all that stuff all up in the cloud? The cloud is great, right?
pHr34kY@lemmy.world 5 months ago
AWS outage. Basically Bezos went down on all his customers.
Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
Whooosh
affiliate@lemmy.world 5 months ago
cloud’s gone
craigers@lemmy.world 5 months ago
BGP or DNS? It’s always one of those 2.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Hurricane?
hactar42@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
SethTaylor@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Basket, dropped Eggs, broken
trslim@pawb.social 5 months ago
heh nice
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
my jellyfin didn’t go down
kalpol@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Using it right meow. Didn’t even know this was happening till I saw this post.
Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Neither did mine :)
InputZero@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Mine did… Although it’s completely unrelated to AWS.
MangoCats@feddit.it 5 months ago
Kodi is pretty reliable…
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
PirateBay reliable as ever…
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Kinda neat that nothing I use has actually been affected.
The only thing that’s affected is my service for cryptocurrency, which I only use for short term volatility plays anyways.
albsen@lemmy.world 5 months ago
its us-east-1 as usual, I guess its that time of the year. and the companies haven’t changed either… so, basically the IT guys told the budget approvers we need more money they calculated it and said, no. see you next year for another one.
goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
Or aws still haven’t fixed their own dependantcies on that region
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 5 months ago
*won’t fix
Treczoks@lemmy.world 5 months 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…
thatonecoder@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
God, so many things gone wrong there. At least they could use “30” as the default value, right???
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
at least its not -254
Buelldozer@lemmy.today 5 months ago
This is why Home Assistant exists.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Of course. But 99% of the population is either too lazy or to dumb for that, or such problems would not exist.
Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It’s not that far off. I woke up to an Internet outage and none of my home lighting routines fired off and I couldn’t control my lights via wifi. I got it under control shifting to Bluetooth but for a second it was infuriating.
MangoCats@feddit.it 5 months ago
I had about a dozen WeMo devices controlling various stuff around the house, they just accumulated over the years. About a year ago, I “got serious” and ripped out all the cloud connected stuff and setup a Zigbee based Home Assistant system. It’s about 5x more capable than the old hodge podge of cloud devices, much lower lag, much better management capabilities, and when the internet connection goes down, it still works. The cloud devices would take long coffee breaks about twice a year.
cevn@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Sounds like someone needs HomeAssistant…
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
the fact that your home network setup for this relies on an internet connection is baffling
Pacattack57@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Was getting up and turning on the light switch not an option?
douglasg14b@lemmy.world 5 months ago
There’s a good reason why I refuse to use cloud connected or Internet required “smart” devices.
It’s essentially an excuse for shitty engineering.
If you really need a device to be cloud connected then it can also maintain mobile data when the remote server is down. Even better, it uses an open spec and you can standup your own server.
MangoCats@feddit.it 5 months ago
Dream on, meanwhile the world will be buying $8 cloud connected “smart switches” because they’re the cheapest, easiest to install things out there and even grandma is able to say “hey Alexa, turn on the coffee maker” and make it work.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Is this why kerbalx.com is down?
architect@thelemmy.club 5 months 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…
BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Funny. My Jellyfin instance is working fine. 😏
greedytacothief@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Oh no! Wait I don’t watch shows anyway.
bunnyBoy@pawb.social 5 months ago
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!
Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 5 months 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
Railcar8095@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Arrr no!
Anyway…
jjlinux@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Sorry I missed this. I was too busy enjoying my library of media locally over Jellyfin.
winni@lemmy.world 5 months ago
if the internet is down you wouldnt be able to post this
Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
fubarx@lemmy.world 5 months ago
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It’s perfecto
atmorous@lemmy.world 5 months ago
YO HO! Thieves and Beggars! Hoist the colors high!
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 5 months ago
Yo ho yo ho a pirate’s life for me.