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AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1

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Re: AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1

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As this incident unfolds, what’s the best way to estimate how many additional hours it’s likely to last? My intuition is that the expected remaining duration increases the longer the outage persists, but that would ultimately depend on the historical distribution of similar incidents. Is that kind of data available anywhere?

Re: AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1

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Careful: NPM _says_ they're up ( https://status.npmjs.org/ ) but I am seeing a lot of packages not updating and npm install taking forever or never finishing. So hold off deploying now if you're dependent on that.

Yep. It's the auditing part that is broken. As a (dangerous) workaround use --no-audit

Re: AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1

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Is there any data on which AWS regions are most reliable? I feel like every time I hear about an AWS outage it's in us-east-1.

If you're using AWS then you are most likely using us-east-1 there is no escape. When big problems happen on us-east-1 it affect most of AWS services.

Re: AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1

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As this incident unfolds, what’s the best way to estimate how many additional hours it’s likely to last? My intuition is that the expected remaining duration increases the longer the outage persists, but that would ultimately depend on the historical distribution of similar incidents. Is that kind of data available anywhere?

To my understanding the main problem is DynamoDB being down, and DynamoDB is what a lot of AWS services use for their eventing systems behind the scenes. So there's probably like 500 billion unprocessed events that'll need to get processed even when they get everything back online. It's gonna be a long one.
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