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I completely agree. I jokingly tell everyone I know using AWS to "not use us-east1" and that they need to use another region not just AZs...and they always laug
by blackaspen 8y ago
I completely agree. I jokingly tell everyone I know using AWS to "not use us-east1" and that they need to use another region not just AZs...and they always laugh and say "you were right" with us-east goes down.
At least from my view, there's a difference in backbone versus corporate space networking, but you're right, most everyone won't ever realize any savings from that side of things.
- jtwaleson 8y agoHow often does us-east-1 go down? I know of about 4 big outages in the last 7 years but you're making it sound like it happens much more frequently. Is there a list of outages somewhere?
- supernovae 8y agoit's not just about it going down.. if you rely only on us-east they have had multiple times when you couldn't autoscale because there was no more capacity... if you rely on running lean and scale/up/scale down events us-east would have bitten your ass a lot the past year... Just for comparison sake even our private colo has had 0 issues the past decade that caused any interruptions to service
- risaacs99 8y agoI do run such a service, one that must scale daily in response to traffic at multiples of off peak traffic and I can state unequivocally that this is false. I can vaguely recall over the past several years single availability zones having short periods of time where single instance types were unavailable, but never the entire region... The idea that this happens "a lot in the past year" for the entire region isn't my experience at all.