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I'm looking at you, AWS...
A nuclear war could take out an AWS region and we'd get an "increased error rates" informational message.
:-)
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I can live without FB and Instagram, but Messenger being down is a whole different story.
Do you think of Messenger as separate from Facebook?
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I don't believe Gmail was ever fully down. For me, I was just having problems with attachments. I also noticed app icons in the play store failing to load.
I experienced issues with Drive last night but it was never fully down. I was trying to work on a 500GB file and the API would drop the link intermittently. I could parse the directory no problem, just couldn't reliably access the files.
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Gmail and other Google products went down last night. Close though. Thankfully not on Twitter or FB.
I don't believe Gmail was ever fully down. For me, I was just having problems with attachments. I also noticed app icons in the play store failing to load.
https://www.facebook.com/platform/api-status/ still returns "Facebook Platform is Healthy", but you can't even load https://developers.facebook.com/status/dashboard/ . Why have status pages if they are so susceptible to going down themselves?
I remember an S3 outage a number of years ago where AWS discovered that their status page was hosted on S3. Whoops! I believe this is why Github's status page is now on its own domain; so a github.com DNS outage won't take it down.
Could this be related to the storm? I was out shoveling, and came back in to my phone blowing up. Our systems at IronMountain (formerly Fortrust) in Denver all rebooted at once. These are all on redundant power, each systems redundant power supplies connecting to different circuits entering the cabinet, and those two circuits fed from 3 PDUs (two separate, one share). Each of those is supposed to be fed by a separate…
“Outage, what outage?” Is a sort of laughable response but all too common with tons of providers.
Would be interesting to read the post mortem if there is any regardless
Can you imagine if Twitter and Google went down at the same time? People would be reactivating their Facebook accounts and having to sift through conspiracy theory posts about Hillary Clinton still just to figure out what was going on. Edit: The points on this post keep going up and down every time I check these comments. Yes, it was sarcasm, I was joking, but I was trying to point out that most people rely on a smal…
> Can you imagine if Twitter and Google went down at the same time? Google sure, but what people in the real world cares about twitter? Twitter could be down for days and only the technocracy would notice.
It also seems popular with journalists and media companies (e.g. TV shows asking viewers to "tweet us your questions")
Serious question: Was any value lost? (this may appear sarcastic) Facebook obviously loses some ad revenue and Facebook customers may lose sales. But do Facebook/Instagram users suffer? But how does losing social media for several hours affect the quality of life of users?
Facebook's own status dashboard ( https://developers.facebook.com/status/dashboard/ ) showed no issues or outtage just 30 min ago. I run a messenger bot platform - the webhooks stopped being delivered _hours_ ago... nothing on their status page until it had been down for hours. Their current issue... "We are currently experiencing issues that may cause some API requests to take longer or fail unexpectedly. We are inv…