Jan PenfratOct 20

What a timing: while I'm sitting at a #CloudAbolition workshop, #AWS takes down major centralised services like #Signal, #WhatsApp and #Teams.

People continue happily texting me on @matrix though 💚 

Show threadredsakanaOct 20
@ilumium irc still going strong.
Show threadredsakana

@ilumium Signal did not really manage well at all today, given that they are _presumably_ not quite as bound up with corporate bureaucracy and legacy infrastructure as a lot of the other services that died. Mobile recovered for me about 20 minutes ago and desktop came online just now.

Status page was randomly flipping green/red, no info on social media, mobile client not clearly indicating service problems.

Oct 20 at 9:48amWeb
Show threadCorvusOct 20

@redsakana @ilumium at least there was an psa by @Mer__edith

https://mastodon.world/@Mer__edith/115405436746725236

Meredith Whittaker (@[email protected])

PSA: we're aware that Signal is down for some people. This appears to be related to a major AWS outage. Stand by.

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Show threadredsakanaOct 20

@corvus_ch Yes, it was something at least, but going forward the failure to communicate (one post on CEO's personal account) and mitigate (services only came back when AWS did) is perhaps more worrying than the outage itself.

Not that I have any better suggestions at this point for the privacy-preserving-E2EE segment besides Signal.