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Re: Apple cloud services outage

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Post by akulbe »

api wrote: post #24
akulbe wrote: post #22

Maybe I'm crazy, but it seems too coincidental that multiple services (Amazon, Facebook, Apple... that I know of, so far) have been affected, on the same day .

Are they all on EC2? Maybe EC2 is throwing a fit.

AWS status page is all green.

http://status.aws.amazon.com/

Re: Apple cloud services outage

#34

Post by Someone1234 »

api wrote: post #26
einarvollset wrote: post #20

ITunes Connect and TestFlight in particular has been an absolute shambles for at least the last 3 months. Nobody there seems to give a shit or take responsibility (ranging from support up thru to the highest levels).

Total tangent but: I just had a hideously bad experience trying to get something done with my developer account. It's not the first time. The IRS is easier to deal with than the app store. If iOS is their vision of the future of personal computing, then the future of personal computing is a walled garden presided over by a bureaucracy about as functional as a badly run DMV office. There is absolutely no excuse for th…

In fairness to the IRS, they're actually REALLY easy to deal with. Or they used to be, I'm not sure how the budget cuts have impacted them but I found their CS quite good.

Re: Apple cloud services outage

#35

Post by vox_mollis »

koenigdavidmj wrote: post #33

Do these things ever go red? I mean, I understand the disincentive to do this, but for something like AWS (where error icons are even more subtle than this) I care about accuracy way more than looking scary.

Could be due to the limited nature of the outage. They state only some users are affected, which I can verify - App Store works fine for me, for instance.

Re: Apple cloud services outage

#36

Post by alanh »

luhn wrote: post #27
api wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are they all on EC2? Maybe EC2 is throwing a fit.

Amazon is, but Apple and Facebook both operate their own data centers. Edit: I take that back, Apple uses several cloud providers, including AWS.

And also Azure

Re: Apple cloud services outage

#37

Post by dragonwriter »

Someone1234 wrote: post #34
api wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Total tangent but: I just had a hideously bad experience trying to get something done with my developer account. It's not the first time. The IRS is easier to deal with than the app store. If iOS is their vision of the future of personal computing, then the future of personal computing is a walled garden presided over by a bureaucracy about as functional as a badly run DMV office. There is absolutely no excuse for th…

In fairness to the IRS, they're actually REALLY easy to deal with. Or they used to be, I'm not sure how the budget cuts have impacted them but I found their CS quite good.

IME, recently, they are still really easy to deal with, but often glacially slow to act. (Which can be unnerving when there is an outstanding issue, since they periodically, automatically send out dire-sounding notices in the interim.)

Re: Apple cloud services outage

#38

Post by Analemma_ »

koenigdavidmj wrote: post #33

Do these things ever go red? I mean, I understand the disincentive to do this, but for something like AWS (where error icons are even more subtle than this) I care about accuracy way more than looking scary.

Red? Not bloody likely. We should be cheering Apple for even using yellow, most of the time when things are on fire we don't even get that. Instead we get "green, with the tiny blue 'i' in the corner". Status pages are a bad joke.
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