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

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Signal is down from several vantage points and accounts in Europe, I'd guess because of this dependence on Amazon overseas We're having fun figuring out how to communicate amongst colleagues now! It's when it's gone when you realise your dependence

> We're having fun figuring out how to communicate amongst colleagues now!

When Slack was down we used... google... google mail? chat. When you go to gmail there is actually a chat app on the left.

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

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Wasn't the point why AWS is so much premium that you will always get at least 6 nines if not more in availability?

the highest availability service i think is S3 at 4 nines

you might be thinking of durability for s3 which is 11 nines, and i've never heard of anyone losing an object yet

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

#94

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 can't possibly know that?

surely you mean:

> I find it interesting that AWS services appear to be so tightly integrated that when there's an issue THAT BECOMES VISIBLE TO ME in a region, it affects most or all services.

AWS has stuff failing alllllllll the time, it's not very surprising that many of the outages that become visible to you involve multi-system failures - lots of other ones don't become visible!

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

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Affecting Coinbase[1] as well, which is ridiculous. Can't access the web UI at all. At their scale and importance they should be multi-region if not multi-cloud. [1] https://status.coinbase.com

Seems the underlying issue is with DynamoDB, according to the status page, which will have a big blast radius in other services. AWS' services form a really complicated graph and there's likely some dependency, potentially hidden, on us-east-1 in there.

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

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Affecting Coinbase[1] as well, which is ridiculous. Can't access the web UI at all. At their scale and importance they should be multi-region if not multi-cloud. [1] https://status.coinbase.com

The issue appears to be cascading internationally due to internal dependencies on us-east-1
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