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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 to c/technology@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/51866711

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

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[–] 6 points 9 months ago (1 child)

AWS needs to be broken up way more than Ma Bell ever did. We need to have open protocols developed so that there can be actual competition.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    There is actual competition though, from Google and Microsoft at a minimum.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    3-5 companies in a sector is an oligopoly, which acts nearly the same as a monopoly. This is not "actual competition".

    All of these companies cornered their own markets, and now they own the backbone of the internet.

    If we broke up all of them and required open standards and interoperability then other companies could innovate.

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