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There isn’t really another choice: Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS (www.theverge.com)
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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

@Mer__edith@mastodon.world here you go, two lists of European alternative cloud providers:

AWS might've been necessary 10 years, maybe even 15 years ago, but things have changed. Not everything is AWS, Google, Azure anymore. Multi-cloud also exists. (And maybe hiring outside of the US could also help).

[–] undu@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 1 week ago

Nevermimd that signal's centralisation makes it vulnerable to this kind of outage, and that was a conscious design decision. So nobody should be surprise this has happened.