Jupiter Rowland's (streams) outletReviving this channel because I had to meme about the recent AWS outage.
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The image is based on the Leonardo DiCaprio Laughing meme template (KnowYourMeme entry). It has DiCaprio's character Calvin Candie ridicule the fact that the outage of Amazon Web Services, starting on Sunday, October 19th, 2025 took dozens of other centralised online service offline as well because they are hosted on Amazon Web Services.
Next to the virtual world system Roblox (Wikipedia, official website) and the massively multiplayer online game Fortnite (Wikipedia, official website), this also struck Second Life, one of the oldest virtual worlds still around (Wikipedia, official website). After the Second Life owner company Linden Lab was taken over by three investors a few years ago, the decision was made to cut costs by getting rid of Second Life's own server farm and moving the whole grid to Amazon Web Services.
On the other hand, there is OpenSimulator, OpenSim in short (article written by me that explains it, Wikipedia, official website and wiki). It lacks such a single point of failure because it is a decentralised network of over 4,000 big and small independent worlds called "grids". The biggest grids run on rented Web space, but even they rely on various providers in various places in the world. Many smaller grids are even hosted on machines at their admins' homes, ranging from purpose-built servers to off-the-shelf laptop computers all the way down to Raspberry Pis for personal grids.
It simply is impossible for OpenSim to go down in its entirety when some server infrastructure fails because it doesn't rely on one central server infrastructure.
##OpenSim ##OpenSimulator ##Metaverse ##VirtualWorlds ##SecondLife ##Roblox ##Fortnite ##Amazon ##AmazonWebServices ##AWS ##Meme ##ImageMacro ##ReactionImage ##LeonardoDiCaprio ##LeonardoDiCaprioLaughing ##EyeContact ##CWEyeContact ##Alcohol ##Alc ##CWAlcohol ##CWAlc ##Sensitive ##⚠️
[spoiler=Content warning for the image: eye contact, alcohol]
Explanation:
The image is based on the Leonardo DiCaprio Laughing meme template (KnowYourMeme entry). It has DiCaprio's character Calvin Candie ridicule the fact that the outage of Amazon Web Services, starting on Sunday, October 19th, 2025 took dozens of other centralised online service offline as well because they are hosted on Amazon Web Services.
Next to the virtual world system Roblox (Wikipedia, official website) and the massively multiplayer online game Fortnite (Wikipedia, official website), this also struck Second Life, one of the oldest virtual worlds still around (Wikipedia, official website). After the Second Life owner company Linden Lab was taken over by three investors a few years ago, the decision was made to cut costs by getting rid of Second Life's own server farm and moving the whole grid to Amazon Web Services.
On the other hand, there is OpenSimulator, OpenSim in short (article written by me that explains it, Wikipedia, official website and wiki). It lacks such a single point of failure because it is a decentralised network of over 4,000 big and small independent worlds called "grids". The biggest grids run on rented Web space, but even they rely on various providers in various places in the world. Many smaller grids are even hosted on machines at their admins' homes, ranging from purpose-built servers to off-the-shelf laptop computers all the way down to Raspberry Pis for personal grids.
It simply is impossible for OpenSim to go down in its entirety when some server infrastructure fails because it doesn't rely on one central server infrastructure.
##OpenSim ##OpenSimulator ##Metaverse ##VirtualWorlds ##SecondLife ##Roblox ##Fortnite ##Amazon ##AmazonWebServices ##AWS ##Meme ##ImageMacro ##ReactionImage ##LeonardoDiCaprio ##LeonardoDiCaprioLaughing ##EyeContact ##CWEyeContact ##Alcohol ##Alc ##CWAlcohol ##CWAlc ##Sensitive ##⚠️
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