Damn AWS is still getting hammered
Yep. Still lots of 503 responses for various endpoints in us-east-1. STS, for example.
Edit: Is this the longest running broad outage for AWS yet?
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#883Earlier quoted context omitted.
walmart.com user design sucks. My particular grudge right now is - I'm shopping to go pickup some stuff (and indicate "in store pickup) and each time I search for the next item, it resets that filter making me click on that filter for each item on my list.
Almost every physical-store-chain company's website makes it way too hard to do the thing I nearly always want out of their interface, which is to search the inventory of the X nearest locations. They all want to push online orders or 3rd-party-seller crap, it seems.
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#884Anyone else having trouble with their Alexa devices? Mine are acting really wonky, couldn’t listen to NPR in the morning really messed up my routine.
Setting a timer seemed to be dependent on us-east-1, like "alexa set a timer for 10 minutes".
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#885Earlier quoted context omitted.
walmart.com user design sucks. My particular grudge right now is - I'm shopping to go pickup some stuff (and indicate "in store pickup) and each time I search for the next item, it resets that filter making me click on that filter for each item on my list.
Almost every physical-store-chain company's website makes it way too hard to do the thing I nearly always want out of their interface, which is to search the inventory of the X nearest locations. They all want to push online orders or 3rd-party-seller crap, it seems.
Yes, I assume they intentionally make it difficult to push third party sellers’ where they get to earn bigger profit margins and/or hide their low inventory.
Although, Amazon is the worst, then Walmart (still much better than Amazon since you can at least filter). The others are not bad in my experience.
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#886FYI, there was a Redshift query outage this morning, and Redshift COPY operations from S3 to Redshift have been failing for quite a while now.
Status page shows all green but AWS confirms differently when on a customer phone call.
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#887I think now is a good time to reiterate the danger of companies just throwing all of their operational resilience and sustainability over the wall and trusting someone else with their entire existence. It's wild to me that so many high performing businesses simply don't have a plan for when the cloud goes down. Some of my contacts are telling me that these outages have teams of thousands of people completely prevente…
> Why hasn't the industry come up with an alternative? The cloud is the solution to self managed data centers. Their value proposition is appealing: Focus on your core business and let us handle infrastructure for you. This fits the needs of most small and medium sized businesses, there's no reason not to use the cloud and spend time and money on building and operating private data centers when the (perceived) chance…
Why is the comparison always between public cloud and building your own data center from scratch?
There is a middle ground of bare-metal hosting. Abstract away the hardware and networking. Do the rest yourself.
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#888Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was not informed of his performance reviews. However, given the reception, his work in general, and the attitudes of the team, I cannot imagine this even came up. More likely the ability to improve routing to actually make YouTube cheaper in the end was I'm sure the ultimate positive result. This was also towards the end of the golden age of Google, when the percentage of top talent was a lot higher.
So on what basis is someone's performance reviewed, if such performance is omitted?
I'll play devil's advocate here and say that sometimes these incidents deserve praise because they uncovered an issue that was otherwise unknown previously. Also if the incident had a large negative impact then it shows to leadership how critical normal operation of that service is. Even if you were the cause of the issue, the fact that you fixed it and kept the critical service operating the rest of the time, is worth something good.
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#889Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's popular to upvote this during outages, because it fits a narrative. The truth (as always) is more complex: * No, this isn't the broad culture. It's not even a blip. These are EXCEPTIONAL circumstances by extremely bad teams that - if and when found out - would be intervened dramatically. * The broad culture is blameless post-mortems. Not whose fault is it. But what was the problem and how to fix it. And one of t…
Hiding behind a throw away account does not help your point.
The person is unlikely to have been authorized as a spokesman for AWS. In many workplaces, doing that is grounds for disciplinary action. Hence, throwaway.
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#890Side effect I notice is duplicated AWS SMS