schizoidman@lemmy.zip to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 21 days ago‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWSwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square111linkfedilinkarrow-up1443arrow-down14file-textcross-posted to: privacy@programming.devprivacy@lemmy.mlpulse_of_truth@infosec.pub
arrow-up1439arrow-down1external-link‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWSwww.theverge.comschizoidman@lemmy.zip to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 21 days agomessage-square111linkfedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: privacy@programming.devprivacy@lemmy.mlpulse_of_truth@infosec.pub
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/51866711 Signal was just one of many services brought down by the AWS outage.
minus-squareCount042@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·edit-221 days agoAnd yet a single availability zone in AWS going down caused an outage?
minus-squareSMillerNL@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·21 days agoYes, because scale is not the same as redundancy.
minus-squareJigglySackles@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·18 days agoSignal would need to pay for multi region redundancy and build a programmatic way of swapping regions when their primary region is down.
And yet a single availability zone in AWS going down caused an outage?
Yes, because scale is not the same as redundancy.
Signal would need to pay for multi region redundancy and build a programmatic way of swapping regions when their primary region is down.