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Even though us-east-1 is the region geographically closest to me, I always choose another region as default due to us-east-1 (seemingly) being more prone to these outages. Obviously, some services are only available in us-east-1, but many applications can gain some resiliency just by making a primary home in any other region.
There's no way it's DNS
It was DNS
As Amazon moves from day-1 company as it claimed once, to be the sales company like Oracle focusing on raking money, expect more outages to come, and longer to be resolved. Amazon is burning and driving away the technical talent and knowledge knowing the vendor lock-in will keep bringing the sweet money. You will see more sales people hoovering around your c-suites and executives, while you will face even worse techn…
WILL see? We've been seeing this since 2019.
It shouldn’t, but it does. As a civilization, we’ve eliminated resilience wherever we could, because it’s more cost-effective. Resilience is expensive. So everything is resting on a giant pile of single point of failures. Maybe this is the event to get everyone off of piling everything onto us-east-1 and hoping for the best, but the last few outages didn’t, so I don’t expect this one to, either.
> 5000 Reddit users reported a certain number of problems shortly after a specific time.
> 400000 A certain number of reports were made in the UK alone in two hours.
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It shouldn’t, but it does. As a civilization, we’ve eliminated resilience wherever we could, because it’s more cost-effective. Resilience is expensive. So everything is resting on a giant pile of single point of failures. Maybe this is the event to get everyone off of piling everything onto us-east-1 and hoping for the best, but the last few outages didn’t, so I don’t expect this one to, either.
You are right. But alas, a peek at the AMZN stock ticker suggests that the market doesn't really value resilience that much.
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…
It reminds me of that viral clip from a beauty pageant where the contestant went on a geographical ramble while the question was about US education.
US-East-1 is more than just a normal region. It also provides the backbone for other services, including those in other regions. Thus simply being in another region doesn’t protect you from the consistent us-east-1 shenanigans. AWS doesn’t talk about that much publicly, but if you press them they will admit in private that there are some pretty nasty single points of failure in the design of AWS that can materialize…
It just goes to show the difference between best practices in cloud computing, and what everyone ends up doing in reality, including well known industry names.