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Signal president Meredith Whittaker says they had no choice but to use AWS, and that's a problem (www.theregister.com)
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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

The solution is to break up Amazon’s monopoly. In addition to breaking up Amazon itself into smaller competing companies,

We already have smaller competing companies. If you read the article you see that Signal says that only a global company with its globally-integrated services can support the Signal application because of its requirements.

a large government like the EU can insist that these private backbones interoperate such that you can use local providers without the overhead of dealing with 20 different interfaces

I'm not quite sure where you're going here. Its not just a problem of different interfaces. The Signal app cites the need for global endpoints with low latency and a consistent platform for deployment of services including resiliency. You're not going to get that spreading your app over 20 different providers. Its even difficult for a single provider, which the most recent AWS outage proves.