Time to uninstall Signal… It’s Jami time.
WhatsApp, Signal, Messenger, and Instagram collect your data.
Switch to Jami now:
- End-to-end encrypted for real privacy
- Distributed (no centralized cloud infrastructure)
- Group chat
- No AWS, no third-party dependencies
- No ads, no hidden trackers
- Texts, file transfers, voice
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AWS Outage: A Proprietary Bottleneck in a System Meant to Be Free
Yesterday’s AWS outage, which lasted more than 3.5 hours, wasn’t just a technical failure. It was a reminder of how far we’ve drifted from the Internet’s original proper implementation of a decentralized network. A consolidated DNS service failure in AWS’s US EAST 1 region triggered a cascade of disruptions across major services: Snapchat, Venmo, Signal, Slack, Coinbase, Fortnite, Roblox, Canva, and even impacted LaGuardia airport kiosks. For over three hours, millions were affected and were digitally stranded because of centralization into a single vendor was chosen over decentralization which often includes redundancy.
AWS outage: Elon Musk promotes X Chat, mocks Signal for dependency on Jeff Bezos company
Synopsis
In a series of posts on X, Musk wrote that it was “pretty weird that an AWS outage caused Signal to fail,” criticising the messaging platform’s use of centralised cloud infrastructure.
“It means that AWS is in the loop and can take out Signal at any time” Musk wrote, quoting another user’s post, which read, “Why is the AWS outage affecting you [Signal]? I thought you were decentralized?”
Signal down globally amid major AWS outage
Meredith Whittaker, President of Signal, confirmed the incident on social media, stating: “We’re aware that Signal is down for some people. This appears to be related to a major AWS outage.”
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