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		benevol on Feb 28, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Is S3 down? Here we go again: Technology leads to technology (and wealth) monopolies, in other words: more centralization. Which has always been bad. Just like with Cloudflare leaking highly sensitive data all over the Internet, a couple of days ago.

ta_wh on Feb 28, 2017 [–]

Wouldn't go that far. It's always been the case in the cloud that if you're not region/provider replicated, you're susceptible to localized outages.

___start on Feb 28, 2017 | [–]

but the sentiment is valid imo (albeit arguably benign)...

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