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Re: AWS us-west-2 issues

#34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's because it's a political issue inside AWS. They have the technology to report it automatically, but there's a strong pressure not to post "green-i" or yellow or red, because those things impact SLA payments. So if there's any way they can spin it as not an outage they will try not to post it.

I participated in multiple sla penalty payments requests on the customer side and never once we even discussed status page color

I participated in many status page color discussions and we always discussed sla. Shrug

Re: AWS us-west-2 issues

#35

It's crazy to me how long it takes Amazon to notify users that there is even an issue. I think it took 15 minutes for them to acknowledge an issue, thats a lot of time for our services.

It was 41 minutes from the first sign of trouble in our monitoring (an SQS queue backing up because the lambda it triggers wasn't getting invoked) to AWS posting the "informational" status.

Re: AWS us-west-2 issues

#36
post #33

https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/ My Roomba isn't working!!! hahahaha!

i wonder if any smart locks are down, people being locked in or out of their AirBNBs would be pretty funny.

of all things to connect to a smart home, the locks to my house would be the absolute bottom of the list. i hate coming home when the power is out and cannot open the garage door. i couldn't imagine not being able to get in at all.

as far as not getting out, any lock unable to be unlocked from inside seems like something should not be allowed to be made. ever.

Re: AWS us-west-2 issues

#37

It's crazy to me how long it takes Amazon to notify users that there is even an issue. I think it took 15 minutes for them to acknowledge an issue, thats a lot of time for our services.

That's because it's a political issue inside AWS. They have the technology to report it automatically, but there's a strong pressure not to post "green-i" or yellow or red, because those things impact SLA payments. So if there's any way they can spin it as not an outage they will try not to post it.

That's a conflict of interest and it's a shame the proper governing bodies have not penalized Amazon for such shitty behavior.

Re: AWS us-west-2 issues

#38

It's crazy to me how long it takes Amazon to notify users that there is even an issue. I think it took 15 minutes for them to acknowledge an issue, thats a lot of time for our services.

I don’t think you should rely on Amazon to tell you anything.

Re: AWS us-west-2 issues

#39
post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

i wonder if any smart locks are down, people being locked in or out of their AirBNBs would be pretty funny.

of all things to connect to a smart home, the locks to my house would be the absolute bottom of the list. i hate coming home when the power is out and cannot open the garage door. i couldn't imagine not being able to get in at all. as far as not getting out, any lock unable to be unlocked from inside seems like something should not be allowed to be made. ever.

How long do you think batteries last?

Re: AWS us-west-2 issues

#40
post #33

https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/ My Roomba isn't working!!! hahahaha!

i wonder if any smart locks are down, people being locked in or out of their AirBNBs would be pretty funny.

One hopes the us-west data centers don't use smart locks. Remember the Facebook incident a while back?
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