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If they're monitoring AWS downtime they might want to rethink this.
How come? It's accurate.
Well... Yes. Hahahah
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#222Must be a Y in the day. It amazes me how many projects exist that don't even have multi-region capability, let alone no single point of failure
You're saying that as if it's a walk in the park to set up and not cost prohibitive, in terms of opportunity cost and budget, especially for smaller companies.
Right. Downtime (or perception of downtime) is bad for business, so AWS is surely working to improve reliability to avoid more black eyes on their uptime. But at the same time, an AWS customer might be considering multi-region functionality in AWS to protect themselves ... from AWS making a mistake.
As a customer, it's unclear what the right approach is. Invest more with your vendor who caused the problem in the first place, or trust that they'll improve uptime?
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#223We 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.
More like, they will fill with blood and locusts.
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#224HOST THE GODDAMN STATUS PAGE ON AZURE FOR FUCKS SAKE. There is zero excuse for this shit. Be professional. Acknowledge reality. It is logically impossible to run your own status page. Trying to do so just wastes everyone else on the internet's time when you have an outage.
You don’t even know what the problem is yet. Stop shouting solutions.
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#225It's not just AWS - check the down reports: https://downdetector.com/ Cloudflare having some significant issues as well on certain domains.
It's possible people are reporting the issue as CloudFlare because that's whose error page they see when a box on EC2 is unreachable.
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#226My personal health dashboard on AWS shows "InternetConnectivity operational issue us-west-2" [07:42 AM PST] We are investigating Internet connectivity issues to the US-WEST-2 Region.
Probably a silly question, but what are you using to get this info?
A browser most likely... this is the "Personal Health Dashboard" one gets for each AWS account
/edit: https://phd.aws.amazon.com/phd/home#/dashboard/open-issues
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#227We 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.
Fear.
The Greek philosophers wrote of their fear some day the people might climb Olympus and find there are no Gods.
Economic uncertainty versus certainty of a paycheck.
No one asked any of us to build specifically these things. We get paid to.
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#228We 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.
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 would recommend you buy a local book on foraging. Keep in case of emergency. But give it a read (at least the first few chapters) so you can get a basic understanding of how to forage without killing yourself. I also recommend keeping viable seeds and a camping shovel around as an insurance policy.
These items aren’t in my earthquake bag (I have enough energy bars to last until the National Guard shows up). Instead these are for a Carrington Event type of solar storm, civil war or some sort of other long-term disaster.
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#229And I kept getting "We're having some trouble serving your request. Sorry!" on HN for the past 10 minutes or something.
Traffic flood to this site for status reports on AWS
Re: Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again
#230HOST THE GODDAMN STATUS PAGE ON AZURE FOR FUCKS SAKE. There is zero excuse for this shit. Be professional. Acknowledge reality. It is logically impossible to run your own status page. Trying to do so just wastes everyone else on the internet's time when you have an outage.
Isn't it on S3 or something? And a few years ago we had that whole S3 is down situation and the status page was also down? xD