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Re: AWS us-east-1 down

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I wonder if this is a coincidence or if us-east-1 is simply down enough that I'm just experiencing selection bias; but I posted a poll on twitter earlier today: https://twitter.com/dijit/status/1668678588713824257 Contents: > Has anyone ever actually had customers accept an outage because AWS was down; or is this just cloud evangelicalism copium? > [ ] Yeah, outages free pass > [ ] No, they say to use AZ's

AZs don't really help when it's AWS' own services across the entire region that break. Anecdotally, we have had customers accept outages that were out of our control without penalty.

Re: AWS us-east-1 down

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https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status reports: Increased Error Rates and Latencies Jun 13 12:08 PM PDT We are investigating increased error rates and latencies in the US-EAST-1 Region. They list Lambda as the only affected service

They've added a dozen or so more as potentially down now. Anything that uses IAM, which I suspect is the core of the issue.

Re: AWS us-east-1 down

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post #4

I wonder if this is a coincidence or if us-east-1 is simply down enough that I'm just experiencing selection bias; but I posted a poll on twitter earlier today: https://twitter.com/dijit/status/1668678588713824257 Contents: > Has anyone ever actually had customers accept an outage because AWS was down; or is this just cloud evangelicalism copium? > [ ] Yeah, outages free pass > [ ] No, they say to use AZ's

AZs don't really help when it's AWS' own services across the entire region that break. Anecdotally, we have had customers accept outages that were out of our control without penalty.

Wild, that wouldn't have flown with datacenter providers having issues for my previous companies.

AWS really does have an easier time than old school datacenter providers. I guess the complexity is higher but it's shocking that they can charge so much yet we hold them to a lower standard.

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