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The AWS outage reveals the web's centralization problem
- sipofwater 1y agoMirror: https://archive.ph/P7FRX https://archive.ph/P7FRX
- jimbo808 1y agoThe article starts with "What happens when key infrastructure providers are too good at their jobs?" The answer is that they get laid off and replaced with cheap foreign workers, with AI as an excuse, and enshittification immediately ensues.
- sipofwater 1y ago"The alarming reality of the internet blackout: As Microsoft Azure crashes just days after Amazon Web Services, experts warn we're 'seeing what putting all your eggs in one basket looks like on a global scale'": https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15241385/internet-blackout-Microsoft-Azure-Amazon.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15241385/int... (www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15241385/internet-blackout-Microsoft-Azure-Amazon.html); https://archive.ph/DycNr https://archive.ph/DycNr
- ChrisArchitect 1y ago10 days ago post. Some discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45646649 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45646649 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45649178 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45649178 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45640838 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45640838