It happened again yesterday. Some Amazon servers have gone down and many Internet services have shut down. This is the third time in 3 weeks this has happened to Amazon: applying Agatha Christie’s criterion we can say that once it is a coincidence, twice it is still a coincidence, three times a proof. Proof that we have a problem on the Internet right now.
In this month due to the failures of Amazon Web Services at different times are Netflix, Disney Plus, Google, Slack went out of order, Tinder, Fortnite, but also financial and payment apps like Venmo and Coinbase, and Amazon itself of course. Yesterday I and my colleagues noticed this because Trello went out of order, the tool we use to communicate and monitor editorial proposals. For almost 3 hours in the editorial office everything stopped because this is how the Internet works today: with services and apps used in the cloud, that is, through powerful central servers that by definition are more protected from cyber attacks, always updated and able to instantly adapt to user demand. The cloud is the current Internet infrastructure and the frontier towards which Italy too is rightly moving for the services of the Public Administration.
The cloud is not discussed, but 3 failures in 3 weeks to the largest cloud services operator (Amazon, in fact) require a reflection: there are essential public services that we cannot afford to postpone as a series on Netflix. Second an expert heard by the Washington Post (newspaper owned by the founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, long live journalism!), The problem is that we are putting more and more eggs in fewer and fewer baskets and in doing so some eggs break. The solution could be use multiple cloud services at the same time, even if this raises costs. As I read it, I thought that in order not to lose the thousands of photos on my smartphone, I automatically archive them on Google and Amazon as well.
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