• Little8Lost@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      us-east-1 is down and with it like 1/3 of the internet
      If any websites you open today dont work its probably that

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      3 days ago

      The original data center of aws is located on the east coast of the USA. A lot of services that AWS offers depends on it, but the infrastructure is old, and regularly breaks down.

      Over half of the internet depends it. Sometimes indirectly. Often the downtime is not so spectacular

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      The great thing about the cloud is that you can easily distribute your server load and yadda yadda yadda. It’s shit. Bezos is shitting in the mouth of the world.