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Cloud providers have all of the potential in the world to make each region truly isolated. I shouldn't have to architect my application to be multi-cloud, at le
by 013a 8y ago
Cloud providers have all of the potential in the world to make each region truly isolated. I shouldn't have to architect my application to be multi-cloud, at least for stability reasons.
Yet, somehow every major cloud provider experiences global outages.
That old AWS S3 outage in us-east-1 was an interesting one; when it went down, many services which rely on S3 also went down, in other regions beside us-east-1 because they were using us-east-1 buckets. I have a feeling this is more common than you'd think; globally-redundant services which rely on some single point of geographical failure for some small part.
- threeseed 8y agoAWS regions are very much isolated from each other. We know because we are still waiting here in ap-southeast-2 for services such as EKS to be made available. Pretty sure that any reliance within their backend services on us-east-1 was just a temporary bug and nothing systemic.