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Re: AWS us-east-1 down

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I mostly struggle with Irish Standard Time (used for DST in Ireland) and Indian Standard Time which have the same acronym. :( Thankfully, I learnt a long time ago to use ISO 8601 and UTC for dates and times. I still revert to PST/PDT if my audience is primarily left coast based.

Left coast? That's a term I've never heard of.

Re: AWS us-east-1 down

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post #122

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

I can see some restaurants just comp’ing the tickets out and having toast foot the bill in lost sales

Toast offline mode captures the credit cards and processes them later, no reason to turn away sales, it is just a hassle.

Re: AWS us-east-1 down

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post #46

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

It's also the home of single region services...

IAM, Cloudfront ACM certs, etc

Re: AWS us-east-1 down

#178

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.

I actually just wrote about this very thing. It's not just that it SEEMS less reliable, it absolutely is:

https://statusgator.com/blog/is-north-virginia-aws-region-th...

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