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laughs in us-east-1

• scarmig 6y ago
  us-east-1 is part of the suite of chaos engineering tools AWS offers.
• simonebrunozzi 6y ago
  The whole point is to use multiple Availability Zones across Regions, to protect your uptime from failures in single AZs or entire Regions. Amazon.com does that.
  • SEJeff 6y ago
    And yet, even companies like pager duty, who have “one job” and hire many competent engineers, still struggle with this: https://www.pagerduty.com/blog/outage-post-mortem-june-14/ https://www.pagerduty.com/blog/outage-post-mortem-june-14/ Note that pager duty now weathers Amazon outages beautifully, but the point is that amazon doesn’t have 100% uptime and that properly designing distributed systems is very hard.