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AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1

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Re: AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1

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I find it interesting that AWS services appear to be so tightly integrated that when there's an issue in a region, it affects most or all services. Kind of defeats the purported resiliency of cloud services.

I think a lot of its probably technical debt. So much internally still relies on legacy systems in US-East-1, and every time this happens I'm sure theres a discussion internally about decoupling that reliance which then turns into a massive diagram that looks like a family tree dating back a thousand years of all the things that need to be changed to stop it happening.

Sounds plausible. It's also a "fat and happy" symptom not to be able to fix deep underlying issues despite an ever growing pile of cash in the company.

Re: AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1

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Internet, out. Very big day for an engineering team indeed. Can't vibe code your way out of this issue...

Easiest day for engineers on-call everywhere except AWS staff. There’s nothing you can do except wait for AWS to come back online.

Pour one out for the customer service teams of affected businesses instead

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