• Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          To what? Smaller local servers? By most accounts those are less efficient, energy wise, water wise, labor wise etc. and thus more costly for the end user.

          I don’t like Amazon controlling huge parts of the Internet infrastructure either but we shouldn’t throw the baby out with the bath water with hyper scaling, we should treat them as a public utility and heavily regulate them or even better nationalize them.

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            Have you ever set up a bigger application on AWS? That shit gets expensive very fast. And I would appreciate the automated zoning and the increased resilience if it would actually work. But I don’t know how many “almost the whole internet is down” moments we need to finally realize it’s not working as intended.

            “Oh, it was DNS”
            “Misconfiguration, whoopsie…”

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          You seem to have missed the massive sections of the Internet that effectively disappeared recently with AWS, Azure, and Cloudflare outages.

          Not sure how since all of those happened in the last 2 months, and nearly every part of the internet was affected between all three.

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          Tell me you’re completely unaware of just how much the internet relies on singular points of failure without telling me.