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AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1

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Re: AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1

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I can't log in to my AWS account, in Germany, on top of that it is not possible to order anything or change payment options from amazon.de.

No landing page explaining services are down, just scary error pages. I thought account was compromised. Thanks HN for, as always, being the first to clarify what's happening.

Scary to see that in order to order from Amazon Germany, us-east1 must be up. Everything else works flawlessly but payments are a no go.

Re: AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1

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I find it interesting that AWS services appear to be so tightly integrated that when there's an issue in a region, it affects most or all services. Kind of defeats the purported resiliency of cloud services.

You know how people say X startup is ChatGPT wrapper? A significant chunk of AWS services are wrappers of main services (DynamoDB, EC2, S3 and etc).

Re: AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1

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Choosing us-east-1 as your primary region is good, because when you're down, everybody's down, too. You don't get this luxury with other US regions!

Doing pretty well up here in Tokyo region for now! Just can't log into console and some other stuff.

Check the URL, we had an issue a couple of years ago with the Workspaces. US East was down but all of our stuff was in EU.

Turns out the default URL was hardcoded to use the us east interface and just by going to workspaces and then editing your URL to be the local region got everyone working again.

Unless you mean nothing is working for you at the moment.

Re: AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1

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post #61

I can't log in to my AWS account, in Germany, on top of that it is not possible to order anything or change payment options from amazon.de. No landing page explaining services are down, just scary error pages. I thought account was compromised. Thanks HN for, as always, being the first to clarify what's happening. Scary to see that in order to order from Amazon Germany, us-east1 must be up. Everything else works flaw…

I just ordered stuff from Amazon.de. And I highly any Amazon site can go down because of one region. Just like Netflix are rarely affected.
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