Great. Can you reference an SLA to prove that, and what’s the size of that server?

Apples and oranges.

It’s not just words on paper. It’s a level of service you commit to and owe repercussions when broken.

This is the actual realistic change a lot of people are missing. Multi cloud is hard and imperfect and brings its own new potential issues. But AWS does give you tools to adopt multi region. It’s just very expensive.

Unfortunately DNS transcends regions though so that can’t really be escaped.

So much talking out of ass in these comments.

Federation/decentralization is great. It’s why we’re here on Lemmy.

It also means you expect everyone involved, people you’ve never met or vetted, to be competent and be able to shell out the cash and time to commit to a certain level of uptime. That’s unacceptable for a high SLA product like Signal. Hell midwest.social, the Lemmy instance I’m on, is very often quite slow. I and others put up with it because we know it’s run by one person on one server that he’s presumably paying for himself. But that doesn’t reflect Lemmy as a whole.

AWS isn’t just a bunch of servers. They have dedicated services for database clusters, cache store, data warehouse, load balancing, container clusters, kubernetes clusters, CDN, web access firewall, to name just a few. Every region has multiple datacenters, the largest by far of which is North Virginia’s. By default most people use one DC but multi region while being a huge expensive lift is something they already have tools to assist with. Also, and maybe most importantly, AWS, Azure and GCP run their own backbones between the datacenters rather than rely on the shared one that you, me, and most other smaller DCs are using.

I’m a DevOps Engineer but I’m no big tech fan. I run my own hobby server too. Amazon is an evil company. But the claim that “multi cloud is easy, smaller CSPs are just as good” is naive at best.

Ideally some legislation comes in and forces these companies to simplify the process for adopting multi cloud, because right now you have to build it all yourself and it becomes still very imperfect when you start to factor things like databases and DNS, and this is what they rely on hard for vendor lock-in.

you, on a single ISP who relies on the world’s shared backbone rather than your own between multiple DCs within a region and multiple regions around the world, have better uptime than AWS?

Stop.

I’m all for decentralizing for the case of no single entity controlling everything, but not for the case of uptime. That is one thing you give up with services like Matrix or Lemmy.

AWS actually has an SLA it’s contractually committed to when you pay them with thousands of engineers working to maintain it.

Diminishing returns.

480 to 720 was massive, and 720 to 1080 was big too. 1080 to 4K is definitely not always noticeable and 8K is well beyond worth the file size.

I feel like they would at least do it by the interface MAC address.