After last week’s major Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage took Signal along with it, Elon Musk was quick to criticize the encrypted messaging app’s reliance on big tech. But Signal president Meredith Whittaker argues that the company didn’t have any other choice but to use AWS or another major cloud provider. “The problem here is […]

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      1 month ago

      Azure and GCP has less uptime than AWS. I guess you could roll with one of the Chinese providers like Alibaba Cloud or Tencent Cloud.

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            1 month ago

            rofl how pathetic of a response. This is similar to the, “let’s see you make better” from someone saying, “this food tastes like shit.”

            How is using multiple providers such a massive increase in expense? They’d be able to share the load, so it doesn’t have to be a doubling of expense or even necessarily a significant increase in any universe what so ever.