Last week, the privacy-focused messaging service Signal was temporarily shut down when Amazon Web Services (AWS) suffered a major outage. This led to criticism of Signal’s use of such a dominant provider as AWS.
Signal CEO Meredith Whittaker has now commented that Signal basically has no other choice.
“The problem is the concentration of power in the infrastructure space, which means there is effectively no real alternative: the entire stack is effectively owned by 3-4 players,” writes Meredith Whittaker on Bluesky.
