▲ 438 ▼ ‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS (www.theverge.com) submitted 9 months ago by schizoidman@lemmy.zip to c/technology@lemmy.world 110 comments fedilink hide all child comments cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/51866711 Signal was just one of many services brought down by the AWS outage.
[–] SMillerNL@lemmy.world 60 points 9 months ago (2 children) Scale, they need worldwide coverage. https://mastodon.world/@Mer__edith/115445705126997025 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 42 points 9 months ago The big 3 also offer disgustingly fast interconnection. Google, Amazon and Microsoft lay their own undersea fiber for better performance. If willing to sacrifice a bit of everything, OVH has North-American and European locations, as well as one in India, one in Singapore and one in Australia. They're building a few more in India, one in Dubai, two in Africa, one in NZ and 3 in South America. Once they add a few more on top of those, that's damn near worldwide coverage too. And OVH is a French company, so the US government has less leverage over it than Amazon. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Count042@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago* (2 children) And yet a single availability zone in AWS going down caused an outage? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] SMillerNL@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago Yes, because scale is not the same as redundancy. permalink fedilink source parent [–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 1 point 9 months ago Signal would need to pay for multi region redundancy and build a programmatic way of swapping regions when their primary region is down. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 42 points 9 months ago The big 3 also offer disgustingly fast interconnection. Google, Amazon and Microsoft lay their own undersea fiber for better performance. If willing to sacrifice a bit of everything, OVH has North-American and European locations, as well as one in India, one in Singapore and one in Australia. They're building a few more in India, one in Dubai, two in Africa, one in NZ and 3 in South America. Once they add a few more on top of those, that's damn near worldwide coverage too. And OVH is a French company, so the US government has less leverage over it than Amazon. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Count042@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago* (2 children) And yet a single availability zone in AWS going down caused an outage? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] SMillerNL@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago Yes, because scale is not the same as redundancy. permalink fedilink source parent [–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 1 point 9 months ago Signal would need to pay for multi region redundancy and build a programmatic way of swapping regions when their primary region is down. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SMillerNL@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago Yes, because scale is not the same as redundancy. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 1 point 9 months ago Signal would need to pay for multi region redundancy and build a programmatic way of swapping regions when their primary region is down. permalink fedilink source parent