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Downtime of major internet services could also cause deaths elsewhere, as more industries become reliant on cloud services. I could imagine hospitals losing ac
by qq66 11y ago
Downtime of major internet services could also cause deaths elsewhere, as more industries become reliant on cloud services.
I could imagine hospitals losing access to health records, emergency responders losing access to mapping or route planning software, people losing access to Uber and not being able to get to the hospital because the taxi companies have gone out of business.
Of course all this stuff is supposed to have clean failover, but not all of it has had its mettle tested.
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- zecho 11y agoMan. In times like these—the northwest falling into the ocean or whatever—it's unimaginable to think about the sheer amount of data loss that could occur. I'd probably be really worried about that loss of data or, worse, the loss of services if millions of people suddenly died.
- myth_buster 11y agoIsn't it the case that there is replication across data centers which are geologically spread apart?
- deegles 11y agoOnly if you had the foresight to set that up.
- hdunlop 11y agolike Uber, but for once-in-an-epoch natural disasters
- h_dunlop 11y agolike Uber, but for once-in-an-epoch natural disasters