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 .
Why?
Apple cloud services outage
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are they all on EC2? Maybe EC2 is throwing a fit.
AWS status page is all green. http://status.aws.amazon.com/
Just for the record, our company has found that Amazon occasionally omits incidents from their status page, though I doubt they could get away with omitting something this significant.
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#43Might be an Akamai outage.
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#44What if they are relying on Docker https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11822562?
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#46Do 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.
Yeah. Like it or not, the status page reflects on the brand identity and having a status page that reflects the real condition of the infrastructure is immensely harmful to sales. I've found that most status pages suppress information about important events more than they publish it.
I wonder if there's an "engineer's feed" out there somewhere that looks like mumbo-jumbo to the layperson but could actually be useful in allowing companies to disclose issues without the softer side of the company flipping their lids.
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#47Maybe 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 .
Maybe one of the backbone carriers has a bad day?
Perhaps, but I (network engineer at an ISP) haven't heard anything like that, and all of these services have multiple upstreams and private peerings.
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#48Do 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.
Very occasionally:
https://statusgator.com/services/apple
(Side project of mine)
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#49So this is why my AppleTV won't connect to Netflix / Hulu right now? I want a refund.
You need a connection to Apple to use third party apps you already have installed? If true that's ridiculous.
I was watching a movie purchased via iTunes and it stopped playing due to the outage. I switched over to Netflix without any problems.
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#50Maybe 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 .
It's related to Akamai DNS.