The Internet is supposed to be decentralized. The big three seem to have all the power now (Amazon, Microsoft, and Google) plus Cloudflare/Oracle. How did we get here? Is it because of scale? Going to market in minutes by using someone else's computers instead of building out your own, like co-location or dedicated servers, like back in the day.
It still is very decentralized. We are discussing this via the internet right now.
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I need to drop AWS and start passing data through encrypted HN posts.
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#382Is it Cosmos DB? If so the symmetry with AWS/Dynamo would be very eerie.
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#384"Front Door" has to be the worst product name for a CDN I've ever heard of. I used to work for a CDN too.
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#385Guess when/who has the next outage!
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#386Unable to use Ona's GitPod through VSCode SSH - Unable to download code server from https://update.code.visualstudio.com
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#387The iron law of uptime: "The mandatory single point of failure in every possible system is configuration."
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#388I still can't log into Azure Gov Cloud with
https://microsoft.com/deviceloginus
Seems like they migrated the non-Gov login but not the Gov one. C'mon Microsoft, I've got a deadline in a few days.
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#389"Front Door" has to be the worst product name for a CDN I've ever heard of. I used to work for a CDN too.
I wonder if many Germans are eager to sign up for AFD.
But seriously I thought it would be the console, not a CDN.
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#390Microsoft have started putting customer status pages up on windows.net, so it must be really really bad!
For example when I try to log into our payroll provider Brightpay, it sends me here:
https://bpuk1prod1environment.blob.core.windows.net/host-pro...