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Re: Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again

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Post by _ea1k »

tyingq wrote: post #91
baskethead wrote: post #56

It sounds like their systems design interviews aren’t rigorous enough.

I'm guessing lots of people fled us-east-1 for us-west-2, after the last outage, and overwhelmed something there.

"Nobody ever got fired for picking [x]" as applied to cloud zones? Sadly, you are probably right.

Re: Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again

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Post by avs733 »

albatross13 wrote: post #69
dijit wrote: post #54

Is it AWS or could it be an ISP? AWS seems to be working for me, but I’ve worked with clients in the US and spectrum internet tended to drop connections to us sporadically, which looks like an outage to our clients but is something we obviously can’t control.

Currently we're seeing 40kms response times from CloudFront distributions, we can't hit PagerDuty (probably runs on AWS), etc. I guess it could be an ISP thing but I guess we're all assuming 80/20.

I wonder if you really dug into most company's tech stacks, how many of their support tools (e.g., PagerDuty) are reliant on overlapping cloud providers.

Re: Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again

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Post by kulikalov »

tyingq wrote: post #85
jrs235 wrote: post #30

I checked their health status page. All is good. /s https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/

They did add an update, faster than last time: "7:42 AM PST We are investigating Internet connectivity issues to the US-WEST-2 Region." https://status.aws.amazon.com/ Edit: They added US-WEST-1: "7:52 AM PST We are investigating Internet connectivity issues to the US-WEST-1 Region." Edit: Found root case, maybe? "8:01 AM PST We have identified the root cause of the Internet connectivity to the US-WEST-1 Region and ha…

The issue is not specific to the US, same issues in Europe. Also, it seems not only AWS experiencing issues. Unless Google is hosted on AWS haha...

Re: Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again

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Post by jon-wood »

nerdjon wrote: post #95
rexreed wrote: post #61

It's not just AWS - check the down reports: https://downdetector.com/ Cloudflare having some significant issues as well on certain domains.

The list of affected services is a bit all over the place, especially since I highly doubt Xbox Live or Halo is running on AWS.

Down Detector doesn't really detect anything other than people saying "Is [service X] down?" on Twitter, which does mean that Xbox Live appears to be permanently offline if you believe them because the typical user for Xbox Live will declare anything from tripping over their ethernet cable to a tornado levelling their house preventing a connection to mean Xbox Live is down.
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