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I think the real complaint is: >>Then it took them four days to figure this out and tell us about it.
by jrace 7y ago
I think the real complaint is:
>>Then it took them four days to figure this out and tell us about it.
- whoisjuan 7y agoI mean what did he expect? A 5 min resolution? 4 days sounds like a very reasonable investigation time to figure out why something complex failed.
- stickydink 7y agoI must have missed something entirely, did this all happen before the weekend? Where is the 4 days coming from? Amazon's RSS feed hit our Slack on Saturday morning with an explanation that the power had gone out and the backup generators failed. Is there some post mortem that just came out? >>We want to give you more information on progress at this point, and what we know about the event. At 4:33 AM PDT one of 10 datacenters in one of the 6 Availability Zones in the US-EAST-1 Region saw a failure of utility power. Backup generators came online immediately, but for reasons we are still investigating, began quickly failing at around 6:00 AM PDT. This resulted in 7.5% of all instances in that Availability Zone failing by 6:10 AM PDT. Over the last few hours we have recovered most...