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Re: AWS Web Console Down?

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Post by brianwawok » Thu, Apr 25, 2019, 7:07 PM UTC

chabreck wrote: post #39

brianwawok wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you can write a perfect automated status page - can't you basically write perfect integration tests and make sure no bad code gets deployed? Bit of a chicken and an egg problem :)

Do you write every single test for your codebase? Do you have control over every line of code that gets deployed? The purpose of monitoring is to detect issues, because preventing them entirely is next to impossible. By your logic if you can write perfect integration tests, can't you write perfect application code that doesn't need to be tested?

There are two ways to have a status page.

1) A guy with a button. It's right, but it requires the guy to notice or get told - and remember to push the button.

2) Automation. But your automation has to somehow catch bugs that you can't even dream of. And not be triggered randomly. And somehow be able to be automated but not fixed at the source (as if you know how something will fail - why not just fix that over adding more status checks?)

Re: AWS Web Console Down?

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Post by kureikain » Thu, Apr 25, 2019, 7:59 PM UTC

xur17 wrote: post #26

fiveoak wrote: post #15

It's annoying how often status pages for various services (when they even exist at all) show that things are working when they really aren't

I've always wanted to build a public status page for services like Google Cloud and AWS with real tests against different services they offer. Not sure there is a good way to monetize though.

https://statusgator.com/ does that.

Re: AWS Web Console Down?

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Post by xur17 » Thu, Apr 25, 2019, 8:52 PM UTC

kureikain wrote: post #52

xur17 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've always wanted to build a public status page for services like Google Cloud and AWS with real tests against different services they offer. Not sure there is a good way to monetize though.

https://statusgator.com/ does that.

> StatusGator monitors the service status pages of more than 410 cloud services.

It looks like they are just an aggregator for status pages. I want something that does its own testing to determine if a service is up or down.

Re: AWS Web Console Down?

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Post by gtsteve » Thu, Apr 25, 2019, 9:05 PM UTC

skrebbel wrote: post #20

fiveoak wrote: post #15

It's annoying how often status pages for various services (when they even exist at all) show that things are working when they really aren't

I've always wondered about this strategy. I'm a developer and a business owner. I'm in AWS's core target demographic. I know three things about AWS: - Their products have weird names - Their web console has horrible UX - The lie about uptime and server status I'm not looking to switch to AWS soon.

The UX is a bit poor and there are long standing issues like the S3 console timeout bug and the SWF console not obeying any known law of web design but serious teams don't really use the console, they use tools like Terraform, CloudFront or they roll their own automation.

I use the AWS APIs almost every day but probably log in once a week or so.

Re: AWS Web Console Down?

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Post by amazon_throw » Wed, May 01, 2019, 9:29 PM UTC

an_account_name wrote: post #50

kylek wrote: post #23

I think the thing I miss most about AWS was sipping coffee while watching the #wtf peanut gallery on wednesday mornings and during events like this

!fq cockroaches

In the post-nuclear-holocaust wasteland where only cockroaches survive, the cockroaches will use IRC to rebuild.