Signal president Meredith Whittaker defends the encrypted messenger's reliance on AWS following a major outage, explaining that AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud are the only viable options for providing global-scale, low-latency communication services. She emphasizes that the real issue isn't Signal's choice, but the concentration of power among 3-4 cloud infrastructure providers, making it practically impossible for services to avoid dependency on these hyperscalers without spending billions to build their own infrastructure.

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