I wonder if this is related to the NHC outage?
Is AWS S3 having an outage?
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#32Next time my boss complains about uptime, I will tell him, even AWS have downtime. Boom!
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#33us-east-1 gang rise up!! For once I can feel mild pleasure at seeing the tables turned… To be honest I don’t know why all my projects are always in USE1, I guess it’s just because that’s where we have always had them for my lab so I’ve stuck with it for no good reason…
US East 1 was the default region until a few years ago. If your account is older than that, then most likely all your stuff is there.
Unless - like most people - you and your audience are not in the US.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
US East 1 was the default region until a few years ago. If your account is older than that, then most likely all your stuff is there.
Unless - like most people - you and your audience are not in the US.
This wasn't an "everyone is in the US" type of post. Even for non-US folks, for a long time the default region was us-east-1, until they switched it to eu-west-1, and about 1/2 of all of AWS customers are in the US, or at least used to be until recently.
Re: Is AWS S3 having an outage?
#35Next time you can also check https://cloudstatus.page/cloud/aws/issues
I guess I'll increase the frequency of some probes to get better aligned with the official timeline :)
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've long wished for built-in browser functionality that converts times to the user's preferred time zone, with perhaps a dotted outline indicating that a change was made by the browser to the page.
Yeah, but, I mean, the least you could do is to say UTC-7. I'm sure everybody living in PDT knows it's, well, their time, but how the fuck should everyone else know what time PDT is.
Also, some timezone labels are ambiguous, e.g. "CST".
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#37us-east-1 gang rise up!! For once I can feel mild pleasure at seeing the tables turned… To be honest I don’t know why all my projects are always in USE1, I guess it’s just because that’s where we have always had them for my lab so I’ve stuck with it for no good reason…
US East 1 was the default region until a few years ago. If your account is older than that, then most likely all your stuff is there.
Yeah the account is from like 2019 or so. But still, I’m spinning everything up with Terraform or AWS Copilot, so it is still an active choice on my end to put it in us-east-1.
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#38Something related/non-related, it's still painful to read specific timezone not UTC.
Yes, this can be super painful, especially when correlating information from several sources, or when traveling. It can become almost impossible when reviewing historical data.
My solution to inconsistent time rendering in AWS (sometimes UTC, sometimes localtime) is to run a separate browser profile for AWS (and third party status pages) that that's always running in UTC.
But seriously, status page people: there's no excuse for being vague about timezones!
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is worth proposing. A tag where fallback text is provided within which can be overridden by the browser with a formatted date string would be excellent.
It exists: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/ti... As a nearby comment indicates, it's not clear any browser makes use of it.
I used the element in a subscription dashboard.
All times on the page are in UTC and are wrapped in a element. The raw UTC time is on the datetime attribute and a fallback more easily readable time is inside the tags. Some JS on the page removes whatever text is inside the tag and replaces it with the user's locale specific format (no libraries required, it's a part of the browser standards).
User friendly times wasn't actually the reason we implemented it.
Our largest concern was our E2E testing. We needed to make sure that the dates/times displayed were always right (and since subscriptions involve money, we wanted to make sure that part of the website was the most tested.) The E2E testing simply ignores whatever is inside the tag and reads the datetime attribute instead. Then we can fastforward or rewind the simulated time inside the test to make sure everything is working as expected.
Re: Is AWS S3 having an outage?
#40us-east-1 gang rise up!! For once I can feel mild pleasure at seeing the tables turned… To be honest I don’t know why all my projects are always in USE1, I guess it’s just because that’s where we have always had them for my lab so I’ve stuck with it for no good reason…
It’s usually always cheaper there.