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AWS's us-east-1 region is experiencing issues

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Re: AWS's us-east-1 region is experiencing issues

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In our case (Apify.com) there was a complete outage of SQS (15mins+), most likely DNS problems + EC2 instances got restarted probably as a result of an SQS outage.

EDIT: Also AWS Lambda seems to be down and AWS EC2 APIs having a very high error rate and machines slow startup times.

Re: AWS's us-east-1 region is experiencing issues

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In our case (Apify.com) there was a complete outage of SQS (15mins+), most likely DNS problems + EC2 instances got restarted probably as a result of an SQS outage. EDIT: Also AWS Lambda seems to be down and AWS EC2 APIs having a very high error rate and machines slow startup times.

Yep, I saw empty responses for sqs.us-east-1.amazonaws.com for a while. Seems okay now though.

Re: AWS's us-east-1 region is experiencing issues

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This is why you are strongly urged not to rely on one region or AZ.

Given the total amount of money I've lost due a single AZ being down, it was totally worth it to NOT go multi az or multi region so far.

Multi AZ isn't that hard, but generally requires extra costs (one nat gw per az, etc...)

But multi region in AWS is a royal pain in the ass. Many services (like SSO) do not play well with multi region setups, making things really complicated even if you IaCed your whole stack.

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