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Re: Heroku was Down

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Ahh... were you sleeping in 2021? They went down in September, November, and December. Probably some other times earlier in the year as well. I stopped keeping track at how bad their service is because of how bad AWS's service is.

I'm well aware of their other outages. But I don't remember another time when they were completely down like this, even down to their status page.

Well, they aren't completely down now either. Heroku Shield is up. Dashboard is up. EU is reported as up.

As an aside, I spoke with our AE in early January on where they are going in dealing with AWS unreliability. One would think they would have a good answer. They don't.

Re: Heroku was Down

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post #66

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What is the proof that AWS is down? Functional monitoring of AWS by metrist.io (I'm a co-founder) shows no AWS problems. Downdetector is not a reliable source.

Neat! Wish you had a clickable demo rather than just screenshots.

Thanks for the feedback, we can do that soon.

Re: Heroku was Down

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post #63

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What is the proof that AWS is down? Functional monitoring of AWS by metrist.io (I'm a co-founder) shows no AWS problems. Downdetector is not a reliable source.

What makes Downdetector unreliable? It's showing a huge spike right now.

It's solely based off social media and user reports. It's the "smoke" in the saying "where there's smoke, there's fire" with the caveat that in some cases there's actually no fire even if there's a decent amount of smoke.
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