At 34 hours of downtime that's two nines of uptime
At this point my garage is tied for reliability with us-east-1 largely because it got flooded 8 month ago.
Is Northern Virginia still the least reliable AWS region?
21–30 of 84 posts
Re: Is Northern Virginia still the least reliable AWS region?
#22Glad to use us-west-2 for reasons.
Re: Is Northern Virginia still the least reliable AWS region?
#23Cackling while reading this visiting my family in Northern Virginia for the holidays. Despite it being a prominent place in the history of the web, it's still the least reliable AWS region (for now).
Its nice to know that where I grew up is Too Big to Fail lol.
Re: Is Northern Virginia still the least reliable AWS region?
#24Ass covering-wise, you are probably better off going down with everyone else on us-east-1. The not so fun alternative: being targeted during an RCA explaining why you chose some random zone no one ever heard of.
I find it funny that we see complaints about why software quality has got worse alongside people advocating to choose objectively risky AWS regions for career risk and blame minimisation reasons.
Re: Is Northern Virginia still the least reliable AWS region?
#25There are only two kinds of cloud regions: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses
Re: Is Northern Virginia still the least reliable AWS region?
#26Ass covering-wise, you are probably better off going down with everyone else on us-east-1. The not so fun alternative: being targeted during an RCA explaining why you chose some random zone no one ever heard of.
I find it funny that we see complaints about why software quality has got worse alongside people advocating to choose objectively risky AWS regions for career risk and blame minimisation reasons.
This was always the case. The OG saying was “no one got fired for buying IBM”. Then it was changed to Microsoft. And so on..
Re: Is Northern Virginia still the least reliable AWS region?
#27Ass covering-wise, you are probably better off going down with everyone else on us-east-1. The not so fun alternative: being targeted during an RCA explaining why you chose some random zone no one ever heard of.
Places nobody's ever heard of like "Ohio" or "Oregon"? Yeah, I'm not worried about being targeted in an RCA and pointedly asked why I chose a region with way better uptime than `us-tirefire-1`. What _is_ worth considering is whether your more carefully considered region will perform better during an actual outage where some critical AWS resource goes down in Virginia, taking my region with it anyway.
IIRC, some AWS services are solely deployed on and/or entirely dependent on us-east-1. I don't recall which ones, but I very distinctly remember this coming up once.
Re: Is Northern Virginia still the least reliable AWS region?
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Places nobody's ever heard of like "Ohio" or "Oregon"? Yeah, I'm not worried about being targeted in an RCA and pointedly asked why I chose a region with way better uptime than `us-tirefire-1`. What _is_ worth considering is whether your more carefully considered region will perform better during an actual outage where some critical AWS resource goes down in Virginia, taking my region with it anyway.
IIRC, some AWS services are solely deployed on and/or entirely dependent on us-east-1. I don't recall which ones, but I very distinctly remember this coming up once.
AWS IAM has caused multiple cross-region outages.
Re: Is Northern Virginia still the least reliable AWS region?
#29Ass covering-wise, you are probably better off going down with everyone else on us-east-1. The not so fun alternative: being targeted during an RCA explaining why you chose some random zone no one ever heard of.
I find it funny that we see complaints about why software quality has got worse alongside people advocating to choose objectively risky AWS regions for career risk and blame minimisation reasons.
They are for the same reason. How do customers react to either? If us-east-1 fails, nobody complains. If Microsoft uses a browser to render components on Windows and eats all of your RAM, nobody complains.
Re: Is Northern Virginia still the least reliable AWS region?
#30Ass covering-wise, you are probably better off going down with everyone else on us-east-1. The not so fun alternative: being targeted during an RCA explaining why you chose some random zone no one ever heard of.
I find it funny that we see complaints about why software quality has got worse alongside people advocating to choose objectively risky AWS regions for career risk and blame minimisation reasons.
[deleted]