"Last week, the privacy-focused messaging service Signal was temporarily shut down when Amazon Web Services (AWS) suffered a major outage. This led to criticism of Signal's use of such a dominant provider as AWS."
"Signal CEO Meredith Whittaker has now commented that Signal basically has no other choice."
""The problem is the concentration of power in the infrastructure space, which means there is effectively no real alternative: the entire stack is effectively owned by 3-4 players," writes Meredith Whittaker on Bluesky."
Signal was temporarily shut down when Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced a major outage. The outage prompted criticism of Signal’s reliance on a large cloud provider. Signal faces limited choices because the infrastructure space is highly concentrated and the entire technology stack is effectively controlled by three to four major players. That concentration of power creates systemic risk for services that depend on cloud providers, reduces feasible alternatives for hosting and redundancy, and constrains the ability of privacy-focused services to avoid single points of failure without access to comparable scale and resources.
Read at Computerworld
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]