Lots of outage in Norway, started approximately 1 hour ago for me.
AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1
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#362Is this why reddit is down? (https://www.redditstatus.com/ still says it is up but with degraded infrastructure)
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#363Now, I may well be naive - but isn't the point of these systems that you fail over gracefully to another data centre and no-one notices?
It should be! When I was a complete newbie at AWS my first question was why do you have to pick a region, I thought the whole point was you didn't have to worry about that stuff
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#364Lots of outage happening in Norway, too. So I'm guessing it is a global thing.
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#365US-East-1 is literally the Achilles Heel of the Internet.
You would think that after the previous big us-east-1 outages (to be fair there have been like 3 of them in the past decade, but still, that's plenty), companies would have started to move to other AWS regions and/or to spread workloads between them.
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#366Internet, out. Very big day for an engineering team indeed. Can't vibe code your way out of this issue...
I expect it's their SREs who are dealing with this mess.
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#367Now, I may well be naive - but isn't the point of these systems that you fail over gracefully to another data centre and no-one notices?
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#368Alexa devices are also down.
And ring! Don’t know why the chime needs an AWS connection. That was surprising.
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#369Every week or so we interview a company and ask them if they have a fall-back plan in case AWS goes down or their cloud account disappears. They always have this deer-in-the-headlights look. 'That can't happen, right?' Now imagine for a bit that it will never come back up. See where that leads you. The internet got its main strengths from the fact that it was completely decentralized. We've been systematically erodin…
Planning for an AWS outage is a complete waste of time and energy for most companies. Yes it does happen but very rarely to the tune of a few hours every 5-10 years. I can almost guarantee that whatever plans you have won’t get you fully operational faster than just waiting for AWS to fix it.
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