I thought the whole point of AWS that it was a distributed system with no one point of failure? In that case, how did it have an outage?
do they not teach people what a failure domain is anymore? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Failure_domain Clouds aren't magic. They require a certain amount of operational confidence in order to understand that, yes, an entire region can fall out from under you at any time and it's your responsibility to detect and deploy into an unaffected region if possible. edit: Generally, one entire region will not fail. However,…
People get slagged on for not having inter-region redundancy. But unless your business model can accommodate that, you’re introducing another failure domain and alot of money for duplicative infrastructure, network fees, etc.
For many use cases, it’s acceptable to shrug and blame AWS for a failure. It’s harder when your high availability solution fails independently, which they almost always do more than US-East-1