The Internet of Things vs. S3 downtime
byThe Internet’s Harddrive
The Brain of the Internet of Things
Some guy quipped on twitter today “S3 is the internet’s harddrive” and boy was there a harddrive hickup yesterday. And nowadays, with the internet sucking up reality into its claws to morph into the internet of things.
Things really start to go to shit if there is no brain in your devices anymore. You cannot turn on the light. The mouse on your desk ceases working, because it cannot connect to its cloud-based settings. Your fridge goes bananas because it does not know how to cool the single compartments. Your door does not know anymore which transponder is the one that is programmed to open it.
Luckily Amazon got their stuff back together a while later and lights came back online, doors opened again and mouses could download their settings again.