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0 pointsbradhe7y ago0 comments

I'm looking at you, AWS...

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ceejayoz7y ago· 5 in thread

A nuclear war could take out an AWS region and we'd get an "increased error rates" informational message.

Are you saying that a cold-war-era system like the internet/arpanet meant to survive a nuclear war might be vulnerable to an attack if we take all the code and data and store it in the same place?

:-)

kerng7y ago

Cloud is not much different then Mainframe Computing 2.0.

I'm already curious and have been pondering about this for quite a while to understand what/how/when we will see a disruption of this.

deusofnull7y ago

Limewire is gonna make a come back

yellowapple7y ago

Once upon a time Multics' developers predicted that someday computing power would be treated like a public utility that homes and businesses would buy like electricity or water or natural gas.

Given the proliferation of minute/hourly billing among service providers, it looks like the Multics folks guessed right. It just happened on top of Unix(-like systems) instead of Multics.

I wonder how long it'll be before we start seeing municipal datacenters?

bradheOP7y ago

No he's saying that AWS sucks at updating their status page.

WrtCdEvrydy7y ago

Remember when S3 failed and the S3 green arrow was being cached on S3. I remember... unfortunately.

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