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AWS's S3 outage was so bad Amazon couldn't get into its own dashboard to warn the world • The Register

Remember, the blockchain is uncensorable and resilient, a permanent record of transactions always available everywhere, so in cases of (for example) natural disasters then it can provide an identity infrastructure.

In fact, the five-hour breakdown was so bad, Amazon couldn't even update its own AWS status dashboard: its red warning icons were stranded, hosted on the broken-down side of the cloud.

From AWS's S3 outage was so bad Amazon couldn't get into its own dashboard to warn the world • The Register

Ah. Well, let’s suppose that wise organisations employ people who know how to design blockchains properly (so that all the consensus-forming nodes do not sit in virtual machines in a single data centre, for example).

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