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# S3 outage: more diversity needed

> The latest Amazon S3 outage showed me one thing again: more diversity is better.

# S3 outage: more diversity needed

  Created by Christian Zagrodnick |     03/01/2017  |  Blog

 The latest Amazon S3 outage showed me one thing again: more diversity is better.

 Read more about the [Amazon S3 outage](https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/28/amazon-aws-s3-outage-is-breaking-things-for-a-lot-of-websites-and-apps/)

Diversity is a current topic that includes social issues like women in tech. However, on a technical basis diversity also is important. It's known that [monocultures](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoculture#Disease) are more affected by diseases and other issues. So when half of the internet is using Amazon, a lot goes down if Amazon fails.

Every system will eventually fail. This is true for Amazon, as well as [us](http://status.flyingcircus.io/incidents/h37gk5v81nz5). The internet is moving fast away from independent, interconnected nodes to an oligopoly. Nobody gets fired for using AWS nowadays. And that's a problem I think. We need to embrace independent providers for the better of the internet.

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