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Re: AWS us-east-1 down

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Post by lkbm » Tue, Jun 13, 2023, 7:57 PM UTC

TremendousJudge wrote: post #68

kroltan wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Semi-related: if you ever feel the need to report times to a global audience, not only make sure to always report the timezone (even if it is the same as the user's), but also use UTC offsets rather than timezone names. Life is too short to remember what each timezone name means and converting to it, UTC offsets are much easier on the mental calculator.

It's also usually extremely US-centric. Nobody outside of North America has any idea what "PDT" or "Mountain Time" means.

Probably if you're using AWS, you do, but it would be much more convenient if they just used UTC by default with an option to localize.

Re: AWS us-east-1 down

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Post by dangoodmanUT » Tue, Jun 13, 2023, 7:57 PM UTC

Yes

Re: AWS us-east-1 down

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Post by dangoodmanUT » Tue, Jun 13, 2023, 7:58 PM UTC

What's interesting is that I can still access my EKS cluster, but none of the deployments are "ready" that have LBs attached to them. Pods can create fine though!

Re: AWS us-east-1 down

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Post by tazjin » Tue, Jun 13, 2023, 7:59 PM UTC

TremendousJudge wrote: post #68

kroltan wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Semi-related: if you ever feel the need to report times to a global audience, not only make sure to always report the timezone (even if it is the same as the user's), but also use UTC offsets rather than timezone names. Life is too short to remember what each timezone name means and converting to it, UTC offsets are much easier on the mental calculator.

It's also usually extremely US-centric. Nobody outside of North America has any idea what "PDT" or "Mountain Time" means.

Everyone knows "Mountain Time". It is when you go to the mountains on vacation, and don't spend much time adhering to a strict schedule, instead taking leisurely strolls around the fields and promising vague things like "I'll try to be back for dinner".

Re: AWS us-east-1 down

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Post by Androider » Tue, Jun 13, 2023, 7:59 PM UTC

pliuchkin wrote: post #77

ciguy wrote: post #9

It appears to be an outage in IAM which is trickling down to every service which relies on IAM auth.

But IAM is supposed to be Global, not us-east-1

All the regions are equal, but some regions are more equal than others.

Re: AWS us-east-1 down

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Post by cogogo » Tue, Jun 13, 2023, 8:01 PM UTC

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 outage is in Virginia so PDT isn't even local time. On their status page they are asking users to access the console via a region specific endpoint like https://us-west-2.console.aws.amazon.com. Wonder if the PDT timestamp is because they have to serve the status page from US West right now.

Re: AWS us-east-1 down

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Post by j-sizz » Tue, Jun 13, 2023, 8:03 PM UTC

notatoad wrote: post #55

dveeden2 wrote: post #13

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

status page won't load for me. are they still hosting their status page on their own infrastructure?

Perhaps they should host it on GCP

Re: AWS us-east-1 down

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Post by jarym » Tue, Jun 13, 2023, 8:03 PM UTC

rotten wrote: post #73

thefourthchime wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think a lot of companies just do everything there and pinky promise one day they'll go multi-region.

I worked with a devops person who moved everything we had set up in other regions _to_ US-East-1 because that is where you are supposed to run stuff. According to him, the other regions were just for DR stuff.

Surely not an AWS certified devops person? I don't think they teach mythology!

Re: AWS us-east-1 down

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Post by eis » Tue, Jun 13, 2023, 8:04 PM UTC

Seems like it took IMDB with it. Surprised that Amazon is not able to keep their own property up when one of their zones goes down. Not a great example.

Re: AWS us-east-1 down

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Post by inconceivable » Tue, Jun 13, 2023, 8:04 PM UTC

jjice wrote: post #89

thedigitalone wrote: post #80

Toast POS is down 100%, don't go out to lunch.

As a side note, I wonder if businesses won't even accept cash if they can't go through their POS system. If not, it's a shame that these modern internet connected POSs lock out stuff like that.

some restaurants have their owner or manager run square or stripe on their cell phone.