▲ 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.
[–] dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 5 points 9 months ago (1 child) Akamai isnt small hehe permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 7 points 9 months ago* (1 child) It is, compared to AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Here's 2024 revenue to give an idea of scale: Akamai - $4B, Linode itself is ~$100M AWS - $107B Azure - ~$75B Google Cloud - ~$43B The smallest on this this list has 10x the revenue of Akamai. Here are a few other providers for reference: Hetzner (what I use) - €367M Digital Ocean - $692.9M Vultr (my old host) - not public, but estimates are ~$37M I'm arguing they could put together a solution with these smaller providers. That takes more work, but you're rewarded with more resilience and probably lower hosting costs. Once you have two providers in your infra, it's easier to add another. Maybe start with using them for disaster recovery, then slowly diversify the hosting portfolio. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago 10% the size of google is decent. If I had ten percent of a tech giant's reach in any particular sector I would consider myself significant but I get where you ae coming from permalink fedilink source parent
[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 7 points 9 months ago* (1 child) It is, compared to AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Here's 2024 revenue to give an idea of scale: Akamai - $4B, Linode itself is ~$100M AWS - $107B Azure - ~$75B Google Cloud - ~$43B The smallest on this this list has 10x the revenue of Akamai. Here are a few other providers for reference: Hetzner (what I use) - €367M Digital Ocean - $692.9M Vultr (my old host) - not public, but estimates are ~$37M I'm arguing they could put together a solution with these smaller providers. That takes more work, but you're rewarded with more resilience and probably lower hosting costs. Once you have two providers in your infra, it's easier to add another. Maybe start with using them for disaster recovery, then slowly diversify the hosting portfolio. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago 10% the size of google is decent. If I had ten percent of a tech giant's reach in any particular sector I would consider myself significant but I get where you ae coming from permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago 10% the size of google is decent. If I had ten percent of a tech giant's reach in any particular sector I would consider myself significant but I get where you ae coming from permalink fedilink source parent