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‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS

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‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/51866711

Signal was just one of many services brought down by the AWS outage.

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And yet a single availability zone in AWS going down caused an outage?
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  Yes, because scale is not the same as redundancy.

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