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AWS has failed at this numerous times. A company filled with a large number of incredibly smart, incredibly capable engineers who have routinely failed to noti
by Twirrim 6y ago
AWS has failed at this numerous times. A company filled with a large number of incredibly smart, incredibly capable engineers who have routinely failed to notice certs were about to expire etc. Amongst organisations with operations teams obsessed with uptime, and an obsession about measuring and monitoring everything.
I sat through so many internal incident reports that boiled down to expiring certificates there.
Since I left, I understand that they've fully automated, and mandated, all certificate generation and rotation, but there have still been cert expiration events, albeit rare.
Cert expiration events happen. It's zero indication of the intelligence or capability of the engineering skills or maturity of a company. It's a thing that just works until it doesn't, with zero warning.
- Groxx 6y agoThey don't have to be renewed on the very last day - non-zero warning is easily achieved. Renew it a month early, and look at it at some point before that month is up.