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Why isn't there any investigative journalism looking into wtf is happening at AWS? What the point of all these tech journalists writing all those puff pieces f
by ferdowsi 5y ago
Why isn't there any investigative journalism looking into wtf is happening at AWS? What the point of all these tech journalists writing all those puff pieces for access if they're not going to use it to pierce the NDA shield at times like this?
- hotpotamus 5y agoI wonder how many are hosted on AWS and if that has any influence on whether they'd be willing to investigate.
- albert_e 5y agoBeing merely hosted on AWS should not be an influence at all.
- hotpotamus 5y agoI agree that it should not, but would you want to bite the hand that hosts you?
- joconde 5y ago“Breaking: AWS censors website that criticized them” As if they didn’t already get enough negative attention.
- johnday 5y agoIf there is sufficiently competent investigative journalism going on, you wouldn't know it either way until a report was released.
- chrisseaton 5y agoYou can't figure these kind of outages out from the outside, and Amazon aren't going to explain it you except for their official explanations. Plus - 'access' means doing what the subject tells you, certainly not doing anything investigative.
- gregjor 5y agoAmazon has been under the spotlight for labor practices, safety, wages. I’m sure the journalists can still order stuff from Amazon. As a programmer I can probably guess how AWS experiences problems: programming and networking are hard problems, they get exponentially harder at scale, and there’s no known way to prevent every problem. If AWS or some journalists gave us details we would just see 200 posts about how they could have done it better with Rust, nothing actually useful for anyone.