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AWS EC2 Having Issues

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Re: AWS EC2 Having Issues

#11

interesting they use blue as the color that indicate an "issue". at a glance, looks like nothing to see here. i have a feeling that if the entire AWS infrastructure were to go offline somehow they would refer to that as 'increase error rates'

100% is technically an increase, if you’re rules lawyering.

Re: AWS EC2 Having Issues

#15
post #7

Never run prod in us-east-1.

That joke is getting pretty tired by now and restating it seems unlikely to be helpful for anyone who's affected by the rate-limited API calls in question.

It's not a joke. The us-east-1 region is one of if not the oldest. Some of the infrastructure is aging because it's hard to phase out. Amazon has learned a lot since then and the newer regions have reaped all the benefits, where Virginia hasn't. There are components that exist in that region and don't exist in others but as a rule, I use those as remote resources and keep all my critical infra in Ohio, if I need to be near east.

Re: AWS EC2 Having Issues

#16

Never run prod in us-east-1.

I see this a lot. Is there any reason why this particular region will have so many issues?

EC2 existed in us-east-1 only for 2 years before it was launched in a second region.

Those 2 years were already enough to pick up some legacy cruft and special cases. us-east-1 is also the first region for various other old services, like s3 and route53.

I think it's also the largest region across many axis, which naturally means it will hit various scaling issues before other regions.

Re: AWS EC2 Having Issues

#17

Never run prod in us-east-1.

I see this a lot. Is there any reason why this particular region will have so many issues?

Not sure if it is related but it is usually one of the first to get or be trialing new features. I believe a few global services are run out of us-east-1 as well.

Re: AWS EC2 Having Issues

#18
post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I see this a lot. Is there any reason why this particular region will have so many issues?

Not sure if it is related but it is usually one of the first to get or be trialing new features. I believe a few global services are run out of us-east-1 as well.

This is my understanding as well. New features are rolled out in us-east-1 first, then progressively through the remainder of the regions.

Re: AWS EC2 Having Issues

#19
Interestingly I couldn’t submit this URL to HN because it would take me to an original story that was posted 6 months ago. So I had to put it a random query string at the end of the URL like this

https://status.aws.amazon.com/?x=1000

@Dang, any way HN can allow new submissions to the same URL? Thank you .

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