Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again

Post by trelane » Wed, Dec 22, 2021, 1:48 PM UTC

GrumpyNl wrote: post #166

aledalgrande wrote: post #133

If you haven't seen yet, news is it was a power loss: > 5:01 AM PST We can confirm a loss of power within a single data center within a single Availability Zone (USE1-AZ4) in the US-EAST-1 Region. This is affecting availability and connectivity to EC2 instances that are part of the affected data center within the affected Availability Zone. We are also experiencing elevated RunInstance API error rates for launches wi…

How come they dont have power backups?

Post by mwcampbell » Wed, Dec 22, 2021, 1:48 PM UTC

RobertKerans wrote: post #11

Assuming crates.io is AWS-backed? Getting fun situation where direct dependencies of an application are downloading but then the sub-dependencies aren't.

Post by reactive55 » Wed, Dec 22, 2021, 1:51 PM UTC

Post by paulryanrogers » Wed, Dec 22, 2021, 1:51 PM UTC

RONROC wrote: post #154

The prevailing wisdom throughout the last couple of years was: “ditch your on-prem infrastructure and migrate to a major cloud provider” And its starting to seem like it could be something like: “ditch your on-prem infrastructure and spin up your own managed cloud” This is probably untenable for larger orgs where convenience gets the blank check treatment, but for smaller operations that can’t realize that value at s…

Post by Victerius » Wed, Dec 22, 2021, 1:52 PM UTC

RONROC wrote: post #154

The prevailing wisdom throughout the last couple of years was: “ditch your on-prem infrastructure and migrate to a major cloud provider” And its starting to seem like it could be something like: “ditch your on-prem infrastructure and spin up your own managed cloud” This is probably untenable for larger orgs where convenience gets the blank check treatment, but for smaller operations that can’t realize that value at s…