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The electric grid is much more important than most private sector software projects by an order of magnitude. Catastrophic data loss or lack of disaster recove
by DiggyJohnson 1y ago
The electric grid is much more important than most private sector software projects by an order of magnitude.
Catastrophic data loss or lack of disaster recovery kills companies. AWS outages do not.
- umeshunni 1y agoWhat if the electricity grid depends on some AWS service?
- quaintdev 1y agoThat would be circular dependency.
- croes 1y agoAnd?
- AnIrishDuck 1y agoThe grid actually already has a fair number of (non-software) circular dependencies. This is why they have black start [1] procedures and run drills of those procedures. Or should, at least; there have been high profile outages recently that have exposed holes in these plans [2]. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_start https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_start 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Iberian_Peninsula_blackout#Power_restoration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Iberian_Peninsula_blackou...
- thatguy0900 1y agoIt doesn't though? Weird what if
- jacquesm 1y agoYou'd be surprised. See. GP asks a very interesting question. And some grid infra indeed relies on AWS, definitely not all of it but there are some aspects of it that are hosted by AWS.
- croes 1y agodo you know for sure? And if not yet, you can bet someone will propose it in the future. So not a weird what if at all
- jacquesm 1y agoThis is already happening. I have looked at quite a few companies in the energy space this year, two of them had AWS as a critical dependency in their primary business processes and that could definitely have an impact on the grid. To their defense: AWS presumably tests their fall-back options (generators) with some regularity. But this isn't a farfetched idea at all.
- Sl1mb0 1y agoI worked for an energy tech startup that did consulting for big utility companies. It absolutely does.