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Re: AWS IAM Outage

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Welcome to "Why I run LDAP, AND micromanage my system resident user/passdbs".

Nothing quite brings on teh suckz like all the auth servers dying at the same time. Guess how I learned that lesson?

The progression of: Centralized Admin is a great idea, think of all the work I'll save!

->Oh no! The central db is dead!

->Oookay... Now I have two for redundancy...

->Oh no! Split brain! In distributed systems hell!

->Ya know, I might as well just give up and accept that this'll fundamentally be a distributed system, and put in the time to really nail down change propagation instead of chasing after a quick fix.

-> This is fine.

...is a hell of a ride.