Could be, but they've kinda always had this capability. They benefit more from keeping it open though, people tell on themselves via the Internet
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Yes, and they can also cut communication while also listening, tracking, etc, was my thinking. I'm thinking they are experimenting with what yields them optimal strategy.
Hacker groups or just shitty network maintain are more possible and simple explanations though.
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The Amazon outage was not a test or targeted outage against the public. Same way Amazon banned truth social, they can just ban anyone they deem to be problematic.
The scale of the outage and lost business was enormous. A bug related to race conditions in registering healthy nodes in a distributed system is a somewhat common theme in other major outages, it just so happens that DynamoDB in us-east-1 is on the critical path for both Amazon internal systems and customer workloads.
I read the official statement. Companies lie all the time, Amazon changes publicly stated values based on current administration (I think we all know their unstated core values, along with businesses that lost money, although the people that count seem to make money, regardless). We know these companies are heavily invested in the surveillance and "defense" industries. On the other hand, I can easily see this as an unfortunate error, either hardware or software. I'm probably just deeply distrustful of government, especially since politicians here seem to be mouthpieces of the very wealthy business leadership, and being pessimistic.
I need more information. AWS? I know Verizon is a telecom giant but what happened?
I didn't notice. I guess I've done a good job of becoming amazon free.
If you want a less pessimistic view these outages could have been anti-imperialist counter attacks in response to the Iran shenanigans.
I can imagine some Chinese and/or Russian hackers gifting Iranian hackers an exploit they set up in amazons oldest data center. Leaving a little message in there "tell musk to stop sending starlink to terrorists" Bezos losing millions or dollars because musk is a fascist that helps terrorist would be sure to provoke some divisions.
A lot of web content is hosted on AWS.
That's a happy thought, although not realistic.
are you trying to imply that rich people would use something they possess as tool for opression and for submitting people?
Yes
They don't need to do that shit, content filtering exists especially now they use AI.