--- title: "S3 outage: more diversity needed" description: "The latest Amazon S3 outage showed me one thing again: more diversity is better." language: de date: 2023-12-07 lastmod: 2025-02-18 canonical: "https://flyingcircus.io/news/detailsansicht/s3-outage-more-diversity-needed" format: markdown generator: "TYPO3 LLMs.txt Extension" --- # S3 outage: more diversity needed > The latest Amazon S3 outage showed me one thing again: more diversity is better. # S3 outage: more diversity needed Erstellt von Christian Zagrodnick | 01.03.2017 | 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. [ Zurück ](https://flyingcircus.io/news.md)