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Re: AWS us-east-1 outage

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Post by jkingsman »

judge2020 wrote: post #34
zegl wrote: post #13

I love that every time this happens, 100% of the services on https://status.aws.amazon.com are green.

I don't see why they couldn't provide an error rate graph like Reddit[0] or simply make services yellow saying "increased error rate detected, investigating..." 0: https://www.redditstatus.com/#system-metrics

Because Amazon has $$$$$ in their SLOs, and it costs them through the nose every minute they're down in payments made to customers and fees refunded. I trust them and most companies not to be outright fraudulent (although I'm sure some are), but it's totally understandable they'd be reticent to push the "Downtime Alert/Cost Us a Ton of Money" button until they're sure something serious is happening.

Re: AWS us-east-1 outage

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Post by cmg »

murph-almighty wrote: post #39
albatross13 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I tend to go off of https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/

I always got the impression that downdetector worked by logging the number of times they get a hit for a particular service and using that as a heuristic to determine if something is down. If so, that's brilliant.

It's brilliant until the information is bad.

When Facebook's properties all went down in October, people were saying that AT&T and other cell phone carriers were also down - because they couldn't connect to FB/Insta/etc. There were even some media reports that cited Downdetector, seeming without understanding that they are basically crowdsourced and sometimes the crowd is wrong.

Re: AWS us-east-1 outage

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Post by technics256 »

saggy4 wrote: post #33
zedpm wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm having CLI issues as well, they're using the same APIs under the hood. For example, I'm getting 503 errors for cloudwatch DescribeLogGroups.

Tried a few cli commands seems to be working fine for me. Maybe it is not for everyone or maybe It is just the start of something very worse. :(

try aws ecr describe-registry and you will get an error

Re: AWS us-east-1 outage

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Post by lordnacho »

This got me thinking, are there any major chat services that would go down if a particular AWS/GCP/etc data centre went down?

You don't want your service to go down, plus your team's comms at the same time.

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