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Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again

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Re: Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again

#171

We are barbarians occupying a city built by an advanced civilization, marveling at the hot baths but know nothing about how their builders keep them running. One day, the baths will drain and anyone who remembers how to fill them up will have died.

The remarkable thing is that today no one knows how to “fill up the baths”, or to do more than a small part of the job. Teams exist with extremely narrow expertise. But if anything, there are more options today for DIY infrastructure - way easier to be more advanced than “run the Apache on the server box.”

Re: Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again

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post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Central EU here, appears to be down.

Western EU here, appears to be up for me. Maybe a peering issue?

It's back up for me, too, right now. Rather slow, though, and traceroute shows 25 hops. So it might really be peering.

Re: Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again

#180
post #41

It is surprising that their status page is down too: https://status.aws.amazon.com Their CDN, CloudFront, always works reliable for me. Couldn't they put the status page on CloudFront?

Takes minutes to update a CloudFront distribution (they say around 5 minutes in their blog post from last year when speed was improved [1]). I think they might want to be able to change it to "everything's back to normal" in an instant, based on the SLA argument I've seen thrown around last time an AWS region was down.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery...

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