[en] Cloud outages: "#Concentration is the real risk" - Prof Doug #Jacobson

For example, #DNS ... has quietly become a single point of failure ... DNS is not alone.

#Cloud outages are getting more #expensive. "#Centralization magnifies these costs."

"... concentration means that a single configuration error, routing issue or attack can ripple across much of the web."

https://theconversation.com/why-cloud-service-outages-ripple-across-the-internet-and-the-economy-272241

#cybersecurity #spof #outage #crowdstrike #iastate

anyone know of an e2ee comms tool like Signal but without any SPOFs?

#Signal
#SPOF

so... turns out that Signal has a SPOF on AWS us-east-1

... *until* and unless they can prove (or at least convince us) they have made approp changes and therefore no longer do

plan accordiningly, folks!

e2ee comms matters little if its backend pipes are down. all that fancy encryption becomes irrelevant if DoS'ed, at scale, and without warning

Vint Cerf would not be happy!

#Signal
#SPOF

Vint Cerf and Al Gore, in all their wisdom, designed The Internet to be able to withstand a nuclear attack on large parts of it, on key hubs, and yet survive and continue to work fine.

By 2025 AWS has become a de facto SPOF (single point of failure) for a *significant* percentage of the world's compute infrastructure.

And The Bad Guys out there know it.

So let's change it, mmmmkay?

#AWS
#SPOF

Anybody want to send me cash to make code contribs (part-time, remote) to CoreDNS?

Focused on perf, scale, availability, reliability, failover, latency, throughput, etc

cuz SPOFs are bad (esp at Internet-scale), mmmmmkay

#DNS
#CoreDNS
#PaidFOSS
#AWS
#AWSOutage
#outages
#availability
#SPOF

lots of youngsters got a lesson today in the unwisdom of allowing SPOFs in your mission critical biz (or even life!) stuff

#SPOF

Its not really an outage unless it comes from the us-east-1 region.

Otherwise its just a sparkling whine.

#AWS
#outage
#cloud
#complexity
#SPOF
#SRE