Now I’m getting frustrated. Despite posting explanations on a few threads and creating this new post no one seems to care about what actually has been happening.
Mostly I prefer to not think that people just want to be angry. After the Facebook whistleblower and my personal experiences on this forum I’m beginning to realize what I prefer is just not matching up to socioeconomic and probably even biological forces that affect our species.
(Written frustrated but not angrily. )
"Are you seeing a Level 3 or CenturyLink Internet outage on Tuesday December 7, 2021 and if so, what services are down for you?"
actually if you read the whole discussion, ASG isn’t mentioned so WE are the ‘small’ part considering warehouses and facilities are knocked off bc of the surge of customers doing whatever on amazon in general. NW/ASG isn’t even vaguely mentioned but tbh not surprised when warehouses and whole sites go down. In these regards, we ARE the minority and can say I do not disagree with them
One of the things that I wonder about strategically is clustering so many vital services into one unit. Even when that unit is segregated out geographically that’s not a solution for internet issues.
Piling so much onto one company and their abilities to offer service themselves seems like a strategically bad move.
It’s probably very cost effective. Yet it seems that it would take just one cascade effect to give the results seen today. Whole other companies were basically shut out of working today.
In the Guardian article I mistakenly posted earlier there was a note that at the time the BBC had a full backup service for just such an occurrence. The article mentions the expense of not only having such a service but the workhours required to bring it up when needed. However, you would think corporations like Amazon would at least have backups for their primary service of selling goods.
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