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AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1

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Re: AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1

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Post by DrewADesign »

commandersaki wrote: post #251
stepri wrote: post #233

“Based on our investigation, the issue appears to be related to DNS resolution of the DynamoDB API endpoint in US-EAST-1. We are working on multiple parallel paths to accelerate recovery.” It’s always DNS.

Someone probably failed to lint the zone file.

DNS strikes me as the kind of solution someone designed thinking “eh, this is good enough for now. We can work out some of the clunkiness when more organizations start using the Internet.” But it just ended up being pretty much the best approach indefinitely.

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Post by huflungdung »

Nextgrid wrote: post #281
stepri wrote: post #233

“Based on our investigation, the issue appears to be related to DNS resolution of the DynamoDB API endpoint in US-EAST-1. We are working on multiple parallel paths to accelerate recovery.” It’s always DNS.

I wonder how much of this is "DNS resolution" vs "underlying config/datastore of the DNS server is broken". I'd expect the latter.

I don’t think it is DNS. The DNS A records were 2h before they announced it was DNS but _after_ reporting it was a DNS issue.

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Post by Nextgrid »

alvis wrote: post #277

Why would us-east-1 cause many UK banks and even UK gov web sites down too!? Shouldn't they operate in the UK region due to GDPR?

2 things:

1) GDPR is never enforced other than token fines based on technicalities. The vast majority of the cookie banners you see around are not compliant, so it the regulation was actually enforced they'd be the first to go... and it would be much easier to go after those (they are visible) rather than audit every company's internal codebases to check if they're sending data to a US-based provider.

2) you could technically build a service that relies on a US-based provider while not sending them any personal data or data that can be correlated with personal data.

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Post by wdfx »

Nextgrid wrote: post #281
stepri wrote: post #233

“Based on our investigation, the issue appears to be related to DNS resolution of the DynamoDB API endpoint in US-EAST-1. We are working on multiple parallel paths to accelerate recovery.” It’s always DNS.

I wonder how much of this is "DNS resolution" vs "underlying config/datastore of the DNS server is broken". I'd expect the latter.

... wonders if the dns config store is in fact dynamodb ...
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