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‘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

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Signal was just one of many services brought down by the AWS outage.

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[–] Count042@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

And yet a single availability zone in AWS going down caused an outage?

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[–] SMillerNL@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

Yes, because scale is not the same as redundancy.

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[–] 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.

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