My Alexa is hit or miss at responding to queries right now at 5:30 AM EST. Was wondering why it wasn't answering when I woke up.
AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1
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#312LOL making one db service a central point of failure, charge gold for small compute instances. Rage about needing Multi AZ, make the costs come onto the developer/organization. But, now fail on a region level, so are we going to now have multi-country setup for simple small applications?
According to their status page the fault was in DNS lookup of the Dynamo services.
Everything depends on DNS....
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#313I like that we can advertise to our customers that over the last X years we have better uptime than Amazon, google, etc.
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#314Their status page ( https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status ) says the only disrupted service is DynamoDB, but it's impacting 37 other services. It is amazing to see how big a blast radius a single service can have.
The same page now says 58 services - just 23 minutes after your post. Seems this is becoming a larger issue.
When I first visited the page it said like 23 services, now it says 65
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#315Internet, out. Very big day for an engineering team indeed. Can't vibe code your way out of this issue...
>Can't vibe code your way out of this issue...
I feel bad for the people impacted by the outage. But at the same time there's a part of me that says we need a cataclysmic event to shake the C-Suite out of their current mindset of laying off all of their workers to replace them with AI, the cheapest people they can find in India, or in some cases with nothing at all, in order to maximize current quarter EPS.
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#316To everyone that got paged (like me), grab a coffee and ride it out, the week can only get better!
> grab a coffee and ride it out
The way things are today I'm thankful the coffee machine still works without AWS.
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#317LOL making one db service a central point of failure, charge gold for small compute instances. Rage about needing Multi AZ, make the costs come onto the developer/organization. But, now fail on a region level, so are we going to now have multi-country setup for simple small applications?
I thought it was a pretty well-known issue that the rest of AWS depends on us-east-1 working. Basically any other AWS region can get hit by a meteor without bringing down everything else – except us-east-1.
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#318My minor 2000 users web app hosted on Hetzner works fyi. :-P
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#319Just a couple of days ago in this HN thread [0] there were quite some users claiming Hetzner is not an options as their uptime isn't as good as AWS, hence the higher AWS pricing is worth the investment. Oh, the irony. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45614922
I'm not affiliated and won't be compensated in any way for saying this: Hetzner are the best business partners ever. Their service is rock solid, their pricing is fair, their support is kind and helpful.
Going forward I expect American companies to follow this European vibe, it's like the opposite of enshitification.
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#320quay.io was down: https://status.redhat.com