AWS outage shows the internet relies too much on Amazon (opens in new tab)

Yeah I’m ok not having my coffee made by something “smart” that depends on AWS. There’s a trend of making everything aware. But in my experience, it’s often implemented poorly, with terrible UI, and insecurely. Just look at the absolute trash they call “infotainment” in some cars. You buy a new car and feel like the infotainment is from 2006. The Internet of Crappy Things is real. There are notable exceptions, but too often “smart” is just a junky screen that send back information on me to monetize me. Do I care if some marketing company knows how many cups of coffee I drink? Maybe not, but maybe a health insurance risk database does. And I bet there are nearly zero controls over that harvested data being kept by the SmartBrew2.0

I know this is missing the point a bit but, if people had multi region enabled for their services, they would not have been impacted.

So the issue here was part aws centralization, part services not being ready for failure.

My company uses aws to run hundreds of serverless services and our infrastructure was not impacted despite half of it being on US region.

What’s painful about azure?