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I really don't understand why everyone is jumping up and down over this. I doesn't really feel like a real solution. But I couldn't contain myself and wanted to a write a response:…

The point here is that, it's important to clarify what you mean by "untested code". Some companies release untested code all the time to production by hide their usage behind featu…

Hmm, I never considered potentially using an SLA on latency as a potential way to justify the argument. If I pull this content into a future article or talk, I will definitely cons…

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Actually this isn't the only thing that exists. As I pointed out that only exists for resources that are duplicated between regions. There's also the critical fallbacks that exist …

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Thank you.

Ha, thanks, we'll fix that.

Thank you!

Absolutely, part of the problem is that a whole region being down is often less of a problem, then just one critical service. And as you point out the blast radius of a critical de…

The sad truth of the world is that in many cases latency isn't the most critical aspect for tracking. We absolutely do track it because we have the expectation that authentication …

Hmmm, which part of the intro did you find an issue with? I want to see if I can fix it.

This is absolutely true, but the end result is the same. The assumption is "We can fix a third party component behaving temporarily incorrectly, and therefore we can do something a…

In the last decade, there has been at least one time where we did issue credits to our customers when there was a problem. Issues credits back to our customers is a small compensat…

Agreed, it is much too easy to fall into bad habits. The whole goal of OpenTofu is declarative infrastructure. With CDK and pulumi, it's very easy to end up in a place where you lo…

I think some people are going to scream when I say this, but we're using mostly CloudFormation templates. We don't use the CDK because it introduces complexity into the system. How…

Thank you! One of the question I frequently get is "do you automatically rollback". And I have hide in the corner and say "not really". Often, if you knew a rollback would work, yo…

I think there are two worlds of thought to the "AWS is totally dead everywhere". And that's: * It is never going to happen due to the way AWS is designed (or at least told to us, w…

Maybe I should have titled the article "AWS Route53 HealthChecks are amazing" :)

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I spent a long time, trying to figure out, what the title of the article, should be. I'm terrible at SEO and generating click-bait titles, it is unfortunately, what, it, is.

Good catch. The truth is, while we track downtime for incident reporting, it's much more correct to actually be tracking the number of requests that result in a failure. Our SLAs a…

It's a good point. We don't actually commit to running infrastructure in one specific AWS region. Customers can't request that the infra runs exactly in us-east-1, but they can req…

If the check can't be done, then everything stays stable, so I'm guessing the question is, "What happens if Route 53 does the check and incorrectly reports the result?" In that cas…

Hey, I wrote that article! I'll try to add comments and answer questions where I can. - Warren