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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

#323

LOL 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?

We maybe distributed, but we die united...

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

#325

I like that we can advertise to our customers that over the last X years we have better uptime than Amazon, google, etc.

Just yesterday I saw another Hetzner thread where someone claimed AWS beats them in uptime and someone else blasted AWS for huge incidents. I bet his coffee tastes better this morning.

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

#327
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Choosing us-east-1 as your primary region is good, because when you're down, everybody's down, too. You don't get this luxury with other US regions!

One unexpected upside moving from a DC to AWS is when a region is down, customers are far more understanding. Instead of being upset, they often shrug it off since nothing else they needed/wanted was up either.
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