By edicted on Skatehive
AWS outage A few days ago Amazon Web Services went down for a bit and the entire Internet experienced a pretty sizable disruption. Why did this happen? Well AWS is a very popular service. The uptime is decent. It's cheap. It's mostly reliable. It's a centralized cheap reliable product on the cloud that a lot of people use... so when it does end up going down for a bit it affects every service that uses it, which is quite a lot. AWS runs thousands of servers, so a disruption in AWS intrinsically implies a similar disruption across dozens if not hundreds or even thousands of applications. Of course in crypto this forces us to engage in an extreme reality check. When AWS goes down and a lot of crypto stuff goes down as well, we all get reminded just how interconnected a decentralized system can be to a centralized one. After all: if "decentralized" systems collapse when a single provider goes down how decentralized is it really? A more complex question than it seems at face value. If we t