[umeshunni]

What if the electricity grid depends on some AWS service?

[quaintdev]

That would be circular dependency.

[AnIrishDuck]

The grid actually already has a fair number of (non-software) circular dependencies. This is why they have black start [1] procedures and run drills of those procedures. Or should, at least; there have been high profile outages recently that have exposed holes in these plans [2].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_start 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Iberian_Peninsula_blackou...

[croes]

And?

[thatguy0900]

It doesn't though? Weird what if

[jacquesm]

You'd be surprised. See. GP asks a very interesting question. And some grid infra indeed relies on AWS, definitely not all of it but there are some aspects of it that are hosted by AWS.

[Sl1mb0]

I worked for an energy tech startup that did consulting for big utility companies. It absolutely does.

[croes]

do you know for sure? And if not yet, you can bet someone will propose it in the future. So not a weird what if at all