People, I've just started setting up API GW and deploying my code to another region. Rest assured the outage will normalize itself before I finish migrating. ETA: 15min-ish
AWS us-west-2 issues
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Re: AWS us-west-2 issues
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
of all things to connect to a smart home, the locks to my house would be the absolute bottom of the list. i hate coming home when the power is out and cannot open the garage door. i couldn't imagine not being able to get in at all. as far as not getting out, any lock unable to be unlocked from inside seems like something should not be allowed to be made. ever.
How long do you think batteries last?
you ask that like you are challenging my idea of not ever using smart locks on my home. instead, you're bringing up another reason to support that decision.
so, which direction were you attempting to move the needle?
Re: AWS us-west-2 issues
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
i wonder if any smart locks are down, people being locked in or out of their AirBNBs would be pretty funny.
of all things to connect to a smart home, the locks to my house would be the absolute bottom of the list. i hate coming home when the power is out and cannot open the garage door. i couldn't imagine not being able to get in at all. as far as not getting out, any lock unable to be unlocked from inside seems like something should not be allowed to be made. ever.
I think consumer smart locks still let you use the regular lock if the power is out.
Re: AWS us-west-2 issues
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
i wonder if any smart locks are down, people being locked in or out of their AirBNBs would be pretty funny.
One hopes the us-west data centers don't use smart locks. Remember the Facebook incident a while back?
You'll find that they are using Nest instead of Ring locks so that it turns out this is a Goog v AMZN adversarial attack.
Re: AWS us-west-2 issues
#45The moment I get a whiff of AWS issues, that's basically a wrap on the day. I'm not going to spend my time wondering why something isn't working today because somewhere down the chain it is undoubtedly a silently failing AWS service driving me mad. The whole house of cards comes tumbling down and things stop working that Amazon will swear up down left and right are 100% healthy.
Sadly this has become a monthly occurrence at this point. Monoculture, it turns out, is a really really bad idea.
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#46It's crazy to me how long it takes Amazon to notify users that there is even an issue. I think it took 15 minutes for them to acknowledge an issue, thats a lot of time for our services.
That's because it's a political issue inside AWS. They have the technology to report it automatically, but there's a strong pressure not to post "green-i" or yellow or red, because those things impact SLA payments. So if there's any way they can spin it as not an outage they will try not to post it.
This is my understand as well. I have anecdotally heard swapping some of those dots from green to red can require up to CTO approval.
Re: AWS us-west-2 issues
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
i wonder if any smart locks are down, people being locked in or out of their AirBNBs would be pretty funny.
of all things to connect to a smart home, the locks to my house would be the absolute bottom of the list. i hate coming home when the power is out and cannot open the garage door. i couldn't imagine not being able to get in at all. as far as not getting out, any lock unable to be unlocked from inside seems like something should not be allowed to be made. ever.
The locks are purely additive in functionality, they lose nothing compared to a manual lock. It still has a key for manual unlocking, still has the twist knob on the inside.
But now I can see the status of the lock if I'm away from home, and I can lock it remotely if necessary. I can give out a keypad code to a house sitter. Or I can let someone in real-time from remote.
All my 'smarthome' technology at home is this way. Nothing requires the Internet to work, and if the server fails then only the automation itself stops; all of the switches, locks, and such just fail back into working like any old school switch/lock/etc.
Re: AWS us-west-2 issues
#48Cloud9 is also down. Joy.
Edit to add: I can't seem to access my NHL Season Tickets via Ticketmaster either...
Re: AWS us-west-2 issues
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
How long do you think batteries last?
you ask that like you are challenging my idea of not ever using smart locks on my home. instead, you're bringing up another reason to support that decision. so, which direction were you attempting to move the needle?
Batteries going out have never locked me out of my home.
Seems like you're putting way too much thought into something that probably won't happen, being 2022 with notifications and all. I don't justify my choices with 0.1% chances.
Re: AWS us-west-2 issues
#50I'm working on an app that tracks downtimes. I put some of my latest data up here: https://app.awareops.com/whatisdown/orgs/a7f95108-ead0-4718-...