AWS: You Were Supposed to End the Single Point of Failure

Description

A Star Wars prequel meme using the iconic Revenge of the Sith scene where Obi-Wan Kenobi confronts Anakin Skywalker on the lava planet Mustafar. Top panel shows Obi-Wan yelling with text 'YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO END THE SINGLE POINT OF FAILURE, NOT BECOME ONE!' Bottom panel shows Anakin with the AWS cloud logo superimposed, screaming back from the flames with text 'I BROUGHT SCALABILITY!' The imgflip watermark is visible in the bottom left. The meme captures the irony of AWS - adopted by companies to eliminate single points of failure and achieve high availability - becoming itself the biggest single point of failure in modern infrastructure, as demonstrated by major AWS outages that take down half the internet

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AWS HighAvailability CloudInfrastructure Scalability Downtime VendorLockIn Cloud FaultTolerance PopCultureReference Devops

Comments

Anonymous ★ Top Pick AWS: 'I brought scalability!' Also AWS when us-east-1 hiccups: *half the internet collectively refreshes their status pages*

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

AWS: 'I brought scalability!' Also AWS when us-east-1 hiccups: *half the internet collectively refreshes their status pages*
@mpolovnev 7mo

No, there are _two_ points of failure - AWS and Cloudflare :)
@SamsonovAnton 7mo

Scalable point of failure? 🤔
1. @slnt_opp 7mo
  
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dev_meme 7mo

Host your apps on an RPI on a windowsill with free natural cooling. Rebel. Terrify cloud providers. We barely have any clouds that still carry water instead of hardware left. Make people question your sanity for the good cause.
@JackOhSheetImSorry 7mo

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