Is this why Reddit and Duolingo weren't working properly? I've had issues since 9pm Sydney time so about 4 hours or so.
AWS EC2/RDS Outage in us-east-1
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#32Amazon JUST had an ec2/RDS failure in one AZ in Tokyo last week; the cause was a bug in their HVAC that led to overheating. I wonder if this is similar or just coincidental.
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#33I’m surprised by how much of the “internet” seem to be affected by a single AZ going down.
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#34us-east-1 continues to have continually worse uptime than other regions (for, likely, good reason too, it continues to be the default region). I've avoided that region and I can't remember the last time I had downtime caused by Amazon.
Is it still the default region? The last two new AWS accounts I provisioned defaulted to us-east-2.
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#35Well, this outage says something about the companies that religiously depend on it. If your entire service just went down as soon as this happened, Congratulations! You didn't deploy in multiple regions or think about a failsafe/fallback option that redirects from your affected service or instance.
For many sites hours of downtime every few months is not critical. If the cost of downtime is less than the cost of reducing them, don't bother.
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#36https://status.heroku.com/incidents/1892 - it appears Heroku is being particularly affected. We've had multiple sites on multiple accounts go down in the past few minutes. EDIT T16:31Z: It appears Heroku has failed over their dashboard, but dynos are still failing to come online. We had assumed that they had multi-region failovers for their customers. Incredibly disappointing.
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#37Curious. Lambda not effected. EC2 being physically tied to a box does introduce extra risk I hadn't thought of.
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#39The Spinnaker project is looking more appealing with every outage. Outage detected in X provider in Y region? Deploy infrastructure to Z provider in Y region.
From their Multi-Cloud section on their homepage:
> Deploy across multiple cloud providers including AWS EC2, Kubernetes
Kubernetes... where?
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#40I've noticed both Twitter and Reddit were having issues this morning, so this makes sense.