With AWS down most of the day yesterday, I have realized just how much I need the big companies to function. How often do you need Apple, Microsoft and Amazon to get through your work and personal day to day?

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Honestly, it was really eye-opening and kind of frustrating yesterday. I never quite thought about how much we actually depend on them, and how that isn't necessarily a good thing. I mean, it was truly shocking how many apps and websites shut down just because of one company's error...

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This is what we call a monopoly

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I found out it was down when I went to flickr of all places and the site wasn't working. Went to check reddit to see if others were experiencing the same issue, and reddit was down. Signed onto work and it was absolute chaos with most of our systems not working. A very good example of why monopolies are bad.

Yesterday was very chaotic for me. Companies need to diversify their services to be honest. Imagine 90% of everything that I needed happened to depend on AWS.

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