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🚨 Another massive AWS outage just took down Roblox, Fortnite, Coinbase, Snapchat, and all Supercell games.

Half the internet has gone dark because of one Big Tech company. This is not innovation, it is monopoly risk.

💡It’s time to choose alternatives.

#GoEuropean #OneClickAway #DigitalSovereignty #AWS #Outage

Oct 20 at 9:30amWeb
Show threadTutaOct 20
See if a site is down here: https://downdetector.com/
Downdetector - Check real-time service problems and outages

Check if services are down based on real-time user reports. Downdetector shows live status updates and outages people are experiencing.

downdetector.com
Show threadHari PrakashOct 20
@Tutanota down detector seems to work based on user reports and maybe more and its not the most reliable thing for smaller outages. It falsely claims things are down all the time. At least from what I have seen.
Show threadTutaOct 20
@hariprakashj Thanks for your feedback. :)
Show threadhgfernanOct 20

@Tutanota there are several alternatives to this service.

One that I use is
https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

Is it down? Check at Down for Everyone or Just Me

Check if a website or service is down or having problems and report your problems! Click now to check/report problems!

Downfor
Show threadhgfernanOct 20

@Tutanota It's nice to see that downdetector.com has a Brazilian version too:

https://downdetector.com.br/

Visualização de status

downdetector.com.br
Show threadLROct 20
@Tutanota i have no idea how to read these curves
Show threadFKA ZOGOct 20
@Tutanota and signal, even 🙂
Show threadlesbian propaganda (211695-343)Oct 20

@Tutanota this is what happens when you have a centralized service

and I hope and wish it happens again until nothing centralized is trusted anymore :3

Show threadmmlvxOct 20
@Tutanota
Oh, so that's why I can't get the data for the weekly report.
Show threadHelenaOct 20
@Tutanota also todoist, and reddit struggles here but im not sure if its because of that
Show threadLaurenz0071Oct 20
@Tutanota couldn't happen to the Fediverse thanks to decentralization.  
Show thread[nate@social0 ~]$ Oct 20

@Laurenz0071 @Tutanota Well. it could if too many of us hosted on aws. Nothing is immune. I don't host there. But i do host at Hetzner. I know of several folks who do. If this were a hetzner outage i bet the fediverse would feel it.

What we really need is to bring back a culture of hosting from home. Where ISPs aren't blocking it for profits. if the fedi was a million tiny instances running on raspberry pi's in a million homes around the world... Wouldn't that be something?

Show threadLaurenz0071Oct 20
@gangrif @Tutanota agreed, server selfhosting is great. There are concepts out there that go even Fürther and want to put the ISP in the hand oft the User: https://www.funkfeuer.at/
FunkFeuer - Initiative für freie Netze

FunkFeuer ist eine offene, nicht-kommerzielle Initiative für freie Netzwerke. Es soll dabei ein nicht reguliertes Netz entstehen, welches das Potential hat, den digitalen Graben zwischen den sozialen

FunkFeuer.at
Show threadXCMOct 20

@gangrif @Laurenz0071 @Tutanota
It might work for smaller services, but enterprises need scale, compliance, global footprints, predictable SLAs, integrated networking, support…

Unfortunately, distributed/decentralised alternatives like Akash or Storj cannot compete.
Yet.

One day…

Show threadLaurenz0071Oct 20
@_XCM @gangrif @Tutanota "there is no cloud, just other peoples Computer" @fsfe
Show threadΔρομογράφοςOct 20
@Tutanota also signal and threema...
Show threadBart KnubbenOct 20

@Tutanota

Yes, but your own service is still dependent on AWS DNS. So it seems high time you choose an alternative too... When will you switch? :-)

https://mastodon.nl/@bartknubben/114780382322032215

Bart Knubben (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image @[email protected] Ok. So why are you using Amazon nameservers for your tuta.com domain? Check: https://en.internet.nl/site/tuta.com/3332849/#control-panel-0 Seems about time to switch to a EU-based DNS provider :-) For options see: https://european-alternatives.eu/category/managed-dns-providers

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Show threaddavdOct 20
@Tutanota it’s interesting.. when browsing the web for my personal things, I don’t think I would have even recognized it because most of the stuff I use is relatively small and distributed. As soon as i started working today, however, nothing worked anymore, since all those companies host on AWS 😵
Show threadRickOct 20
@Tutanota It's time indeed. Also, practice what you preach: https://mastodon.nl/@bartknubben/115405952355774794
Bart Knubben (@[email protected])

@[email protected] Yes, but your own service is still dependent on AWS DNS. So it seems high time you choose an alternative too... When will you switch? :-) https://mastodon.nl/@bartknubben/114780382322032215

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Show threadGiles GoatOct 20
@Tutanota You would expect they have replicated servers and redundancy precisely to avoid this ? 🤔
Show threadvlakicasOct 20
@Tutanota Fediverse on the air :)
Show threadHippo 🍉Oct 20
@Tutanota and here I was happily emailing people on #Thunderbird and making designs on #Penpot and #Inkscape to share via #XMPP, at which point I remembered to catch up on discussions on #Loomio, and got roped into drafting a manifesto on #Cryptpad, all while blissfully unaware of the chaos going on until I opened #Newsflash and read about it all on the #RSS feeds that I synchronise via #NextCloud, at which point I decided to head over to talk about it with the world thanks to #ActivityPub!
Show threaddoragasuOct 20
@Tutanota Got the message and I agree. But maybe you should have chosen better examples for the services that went down. For me and many others, we would gain if all those just vanish to never return 😅
Show threadDazOct 20
@Tutanota I love the fact that some doorbells stopped working because of an outage in a data centre on the other side of the planet
Show threadinj4nOct 20

@daz @Tutanota

While choosing alternatives, we might take a look at the advantages of diverse software too. It's not only the use of distributed services, it's also important to not have a single vulnerability being applicable to all instances of the same software being run.

Show threadAlexander KnochelOct 20
@Tutanota Strange, I'm not missing anything... I must be on the other half
Show threadKeahilaniOct 20
@Tutanota oh Amazon smh. Amirite? #AntiTrust , #AntiTrustlawsandcompetition
Show threadUmerOct 20
@Tutanota aliens have taken over. Run for your coins. I mean for your life.
Show threadBookOct 20
@Tutanota
Show thread慧敏Oct 20
@Tutanota This AWS outage once again exposes the fragility of the internet. The global disruption of multiple services demonstrates the extreme risks of over-reliance on a single cloud platform. Innovation doesn't equate to centralization, and efficiency shouldn't come at the expense of resilience. Enterprises should deploy multi-cloud and backup solutions, and users should be wary of platform monopolies. A truly secure internet must be both decentralized and robust.
Show threadsj_zeroOct 20
Unfortunately, Europe can't have platforms because Europe would have to grow for that to happen.

Same as Canada -- How are we supposed to have our own platforms when our state is going out of its way to hammer down anyone who isn't a party loyalist?