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Re: AWS us-east-1 down

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Post by arbitrage »

whoisjuan wrote: post #34

Why is it always us-east-1 though? I have always stayed away from that region because it seems significantly less reliable than other regions.

Because it was one of the first, and it shows its age and less than rigorous rollout compared to the other zones.

Re: AWS us-east-1 down

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Post by JoshTriplett »

whoisjuan wrote: post #34

Why is it always us-east-1 though? I have always stayed away from that region because it seems significantly less reliable than other regions.

us-east-1 is AWS's oldest region, and has the most legacy infrastructure, in ways that many other regions do not.

Re: AWS us-east-1 down

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Post by dijit »

whoisjuan wrote: post #34

Why is it always us-east-1 though? I have always stayed away from that region because it seems significantly less reliable than other regions.

It's the:

* Largest (DDoS'd most, most complex, scaling issues etc)

* Oldest (More time for weird idiosyncrasies to take hold)

* Where most testing happens

* Where new products are deployed first

Re: AWS us-east-1 down

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Post by rurp »

intsunny wrote: post #28

For those wondering: Currently PDT is 7 hours behind UTC. AWS can do so many things, reporting critical outage updates in UTC is not one of those things.

The inconsistency with timezones across different services in the AWS console has always baffled and annoyed me. Some places have a time without a timezone and I can never tell right away if it's utc, local time, or region time.

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Post by meepmorp »

takeda wrote: post #39
intsunny wrote: post #28

For those wondering: Currently PDT is 7 hours behind UTC. AWS can do so many things, reporting critical outage updates in UTC is not one of those things.

I thought it uses your browser time zone, is it not?

Says the same here and I'm on the other coast.
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