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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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It seems that all the sites that ask for distributed systems in their interview and has their website down wouldn't even pass their own interview. This is why distributed systems is an extremely important discipline.

distributed systems != continuous uptime

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

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This is from Amazon's latest earnings call when Andy Jessy was asked why they aren't growing as much as there competitors

"I think if you look at what matters to customers, what they care they care a lot about what the operational performance is, you know, what the availability is, what the durability is, what the latency and throughput is of of the various services. And I think we have a pretty significant advantage in that area." also "And, yeah, you could just you just look at what's happened the last couple months. You can just see kind of adventures at some of these players almost every month. And so very big difference, I think, in security."

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

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"Oct 20 2:01 AM PDT We have identified a potential root cause for error rates for the DynamoDB APIs in the US-EAST-1 Region. Based on our investigation, the issue appears to be related to DNS resolution of the DynamoDB API endpoint in US-EAST-1..."

It's always DNS...

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