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Re: Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again

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Post by tyingq »

bravetraveler wrote: post #89
ceejayoz wrote: post #34

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Not at all. The other cloud providers have had their own outages.

Sadly this, people are entrenched with AWS and the... "We're not the only ones down" thing truly has some effect Organizations can more easily swallow an AWS failure when they aren't the only ones hit. They move elsewhere, those outages look more unique Folks may think multi cloud is a good idea... But you're just as likely to suffer from the extra points of failure as you are to benefit

Multi-cloud is such an odd idea to me. You're either building abstractions on top of things like cloud-provider specific implementations of CDNs, K8S, S3, Postgres, etc...or using the cloud just for VMs. The latter would be cheaper with just old-school hosting from Equinix, Rackspace, etc. The former feels like a losing battle.

Re: Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again

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Post by Hamuko »

Sebb767 wrote: post #64
electroly wrote: post #44

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The status page is working great for me. Did they make it multi-region after the last failure? I'm on the east coast.

Central EU here, appears to be down.

Northern EU, down as well. AWS Management Console in eu-west-1 opens up just fine though.

Edit: Hitting refresh a bunch finally got it open.

Re: Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again

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Post by rozenmd »

itisit wrote: post #113
synergy20 wrote: post #88

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AWS should monitor itself from Azure or GCP, even DO or Linode makes more sense. Eat your own dog food shows confidence, but monitoring it is a different dimension, you need use anything but your own dog food there.

AWS wouldn't monitor itself from a competitor, of course, but they could just as well silo a team and isolate DCs to do independent self-auditing.

I don't know about AWS, but I know a lot of us uptime monitoring makers use (and pay) for competitor's products to know if we're down.

Re: Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again

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Post by saganus »

QuiiBz wrote: post #43

I tried to monitor services status using https://stop.lying.cloud , but they are also hosted to AWS, and down too.

How does this service work?

It seems to have all the look and feel of AWS, and somehow has more up to date info than the official AWS status page?

Re: Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again

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Post by nerdjon »

iamricks wrote: post #116
nerdjon wrote: post #95

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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.

lol imagine if azure was just AWS in the backend

Is it bad that I can almost see that being a quick and dirty MVP to get out the door while you built your own cloud solution? Raises serious migration and cost issues, but... would be interesting.

Re: Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again

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Post by qeternity »

yawnxyz wrote: post #111

Vercel is down too. My sites run on Cloudflare and Vercel, and I can't even log in to those right now. I'm curious — what does Hacker News run on? It seems impervious to any kind of downtime...

> I'm curious — what does Hacker News run on? It seems impervious to any kind of downtime...

On a dirty, disgusting dedicated server.

Re: Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again

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Post by tyingq »

_ea1k wrote: post #125
tyingq wrote: post #91

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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.

I wonder how many are now furiously headed back to us-east-1, building the conditions for the third event :)
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