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Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again
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#202And I kept getting "We're having some trouble serving your request. Sorry!" on HN for the past 10 minutes or something.
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#203It 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...
It's minutes to update the distribution settings, but that doesn't have to be the case for the content itself. A much lower cache time can be used.
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#204AWS Global Accelerator not working correctly anymore as well, connections dropped worldwide. Seems like it is managed from us-west-2 and not redundant.
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#205"Everything is fine." - https://status.aws.amazon.com
Everything *is* fine now. The status page previously reflected an issue much quicker than last time.
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#206It's not just AWS - check the down reports: https://downdetector.com/ Cloudflare having some significant issues as well on certain domains.
This looks weird. At the same time all those services had a spike in outage reports.
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#207Earlier quoted context omitted.
So long as you live in a city you are probably forgetting most of the ways to survive. I could not even try to discover which berries are edible without killing myself. However, I can teach advanced maths to a largish group of students without much trouble.
> I could not even try to discover which berries are edible without killing myself. Cluster berries, from raspberries to pineapples, are never poisonous. Avoid berries that resemble blueberries or currants unless you're able to identify the plant: we grew up with blueberries and know the leaves, but we avoid anything currant-like because we'd have no idea if they're actually, say, chokeberries. Avoid anything that lo…
> Cluster berries, from raspberries to pineapples, are never poisonous.
I know nothing but that still seems too generalized that it doesn’t have an exception somewhere in the world.
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#208Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Rightly so. My point is a company can self-audit without having to pay a competitor.
Absolutely. And even if it’s cheaper to use the competition, an expensive custom solution will be found.
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#209We 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.
This has been true for a long time and it is not a bad thing. It’s an easy target to romanticize but realistically, any alternative is basically a way of saying: “let’s stop evolving.”
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#210We 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.
Many years ago I stood at the window of my comfortable apartment, watching wind and cold rain rage outside.
I thought about my cave men ancestors who during such a storm if they needed water would have to go out and get it, getting themselves soaked.
If I wanted water, the tap in the kitchen would give it to me, in a nice controlled fashion. If I did feel like having water rain down upon me, my shower would do that, again in a controlled fashion, and I could select the water temperature.
If they wanted the cave to be warmer, they had to burn something and deal with the smoke. And they might have to work hard to obtain whatever it is they burn.
If I wanted my apartment warmer, I just had to turn the knob on the thermostat.
They were at the mercy of their environment. My environment is mine to command. I was feeling pretty superior to my cave man ancestors.
Then I realized that I don't know how to build the systems that I was relying on for my supposed superiority, or even how some of them work.
I'm really just a cave man that found a nicer cave.