You'd be hard pressed to find an online service that isn't associated with AWS in some way.
this post was submitted on 20 Oct 2025
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Sadly, there are some who don't even know it, because they're buying services from someone else that buys them from someone else that buys them from Amazon. So they're currently wondering what the fuck is even going on, since they thought they weren't using AWS.
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I'm pretty sure most of Azure (Microsoft), OCI (Oracle), and GCP (Google) have all been fine.
Bezos is a craven beast but I don't see many companies above with CEOs that I'd feel comfortable babysitting my teenage daughter
The company I work for is an Azure shop. However, our provider for customer 2fa tokens uses AWS.... So still in trouble.
Once Larry Ellison owns TikTok he's going to be babysitting all the teenagers and a whole bunch of other people!
Sure, but online services can certainly leverage multiple modules, from multiple companies, hosted in multiple places. So maybe your site mostly works fine, but a key aspect of it is broken.
from multiple companies
See the above post from the Azure shop ... that uses AWS for 2FA tokens
You want to add multiple companies in parallel as alternates/failovers, not in serial where any one failure blocks the whole flow
But that would cost more money, that's anticapitalist.
Yes, it's much more expensive to have two providers. Both in terms of outright costs but even more so in terms of ongoing engineering/technical overhead.
The calculus is how much the expectation downtime is, versus that cost. It's a reasonable calculation and TBH if outages are a few hours once every few years for most cases it's acceptable.
OFC if your hospitals or emergency services depend on a cloud service, you happily fork over the extra money same as you do for any other insurance.
If there's anything I know, it's that "businesspeople" are never proactive.
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Lemmy seemed fine, Reddit did not.
Lemmy seemed fine
Federated, open source
Reddit did not
Centralized, corporate
That doesnt really have anything to do with this issue. Lemmy can absolutly be hosted in AWS via ECS (or EKS if you love Kubernetes). Hell, it could be hosted directly on EC2 if preferred.
Federation as a whole is more resilient because each operator can chose whatever hosting solution they prefer. But if your particular server happened to be hosted in AWS in the useast1 region; your shit was gonna be a bit busted.
Amen to that, good thing though. Got me to learn what Lemmy was. Apparently I've been under a rock.
Welcome to the fediverse!!
Walmart.com would likely work fine, as they are rabidly anti-Amazon, especially AWS. They don't even want their SaaS vendors using AWS under the covers for them.
Can confirm, about 10 years ago, the company I worked for migrated to AWS, and I managed the transition. We planned everything meticulously so that there would be no downtime, and used it as excuse to fix a lot of tech debt. No one was supposed to even notice the cutover, and when we did it, I expected the only feedback to be that things seemed faster and were working as expected. A few hours later, we get a complaint from an Account Manager for Walmart that they can't access the platform at all. There was a lot of confusion and back and forth, turns out their IT department had an allow list or something in the corporate DNS to not resolve to AWS owned IPs unless approved. We eventually got them to add our domain to their allowlist, but it seemed insane that they would spend the effort to implement and maintain that level of control.
I brought down all my department's services to take a day off and blame it on Amazon. Next year when negotiating a raise/budget increase, I'll point to this incident and take credit for migrating us off AWS after six months of in-person training classes (either in places I haven't visited or would like to see again) and another six months of hard work in the office (napping in the server room).
2026 is looking pretty good already and I definitely won't regret tempting fate by saying that.
great idea! show us your nap setup! sitting or lying down?
Legendary.
It's sad that none of these people you deal with don't know what service they use or vendors they deal with? That sounds fantastic for you, scary for everyone else.
The really stupid thing is that even if you weren't in AWS east us 1 you were still boned because that is where AWS does it's service authentication.
I love it when Cloud companies pretend there are "serverless" services that are "location-transparent"
You know, they sell this crap to governments and have to follow compliance regimes like FedRAMP but yet... this happens
But the only way to do this is to have a CSO willing to invest heavy in red-teaming -- for attacks of every kind the team can brainstorm -- and a CEO willing to spend the $$ and attention to get their recommendations implemented.
I just want AWS, Azure, Google, & Cloudflare to go down at the same time.
And maybe stay down.
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We all fund the devil pretending we don't know.
Same, Canvas is perhaps the most used Learning Management System in the US and they apparently are entirely hosted on AWS East. The real kicker is I had my students midterm due date literally today for two classes. I've been swamped with panic emails (and I made clear my due dates aren't even that important when there isn't a national outage lol).
My head canon is someone wished for a miracle due date extension somewhere in the country and they monkey's pawed AWS into non existence.
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I wouldn't look at it that way. Even companies not leveraging AWS directly will be impacted.
Especially Microsoft, Google, and Oracle, who are all at this very moment probably sending out sales droids in vast numbers
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My wife and I are at Disneyland today, and their site is down. xD
Yep, I just love how one service provider goes down and way to much of the internet goes down with it.
All of them?
All of them.
A lot of my services were unaffected 🤷♂️
fr i cant believe clash royale is a part of that
EBSCO was down. Ask me how my dissertation writing progressed today...
I haven't been able to use Flickr for 10 hours. I'm so mad
scums
Not a plural/countable word.
*Amazon's cums
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