• 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…”