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Coincidentally happens on the new CEO's first week.

tehlike 5y ago
A new effort to increase stability will be started by the VP of Engineering in light of this issue.
jaredsohn 5y ago
Obviously it is a coincidence but I have a funny vision in my head of Amazon systems relying on Bezos running a script or similar for the past 27 years and forgetting to have someone else take it over for him. Could probably be an Onion article.
- paranoidrobot 5y ago
  Other possible funny (but probably happened somewhere else) scenarios: It doesn't rely on him running it, it just runs under his UID. A widely distributed authentication/security process does an internal healthcheck by looking up 'jbezos' on the datastore. A few hours ago someone disabled the jbezos user.
  - nodesocket 5y ago
    Honestly this explanation is not that far fetched at all, in fact plausible.
  - grogenaut 5y ago
    nah a long time ago they moved everything to run as 'nobody' and that was before the move off of those systems and onto things like ECS. fun fact jeff's employee id is like 72 or something while still being the lowest as they didn't reset the oracle sequence once they got that system working after testing but before making his user.
    - paranoidrobot 5y ago
      I know it's unlikely, but I've grown (even more) sceptical over the years. I've stopped being surprised when I encounter some configuration file somewhere with a comment: "TODO: Fix this later" and it turns out more than half the business relies on that thing being configured that way. Even at companies who do have the money and technical resources to do things right, things get forgotten, or pushed back on. So, while these are problems that are unlikely, I'm sure I'm not the only one wondering... "Did they have something dumb like this, too?"
  - paxys 5y ago
    Would be a fun story but Bezos is still the executive chairman of Amazon, so his user account will be left very much intact.
    - paranoidrobot 5y ago
      Ok, so the account still exists, but it's now in a different OU and so the healthcheck that looks for it in the Office of the CEO ou fails... Again, a joke, but I've seen stuff fail in other dumb ways because of some assumptions that were made about things that never change (until the day they do).
- dylan604 5y ago
  I envision the bunker from Lost where every 30 mins a code must be typed in to keep things running. Now you know why Bezos dind't want to do it any longer.
xyst 5y ago
Loading up on weekly AMZN puts this week sounds like a pretty good idea
- BoorishBears 5y ago
  If you want to lose money, sure.
  - fridif 5y ago
    Ah yes, the old "literally can't go wrong trade", FAANG calls
- nodesocket 5y ago
  Not even a grain of sand for AMZN, foolish if you serious.
- kortilla 5y ago
  This event already happened. Any puts you buy tomorrow will have taken this outage into account.
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A new effort to increase stability will be started by the VP of Engineering in light of this issue.

Obviously it is a coincidence but I have a funny vision in my head of Amazon systems relying on Bezos running a script or similar for the past 27 years and forgetting to have someone else take it over for him. Could probably be an Onion article.

paranoidrobot 5y ago
Other possible funny (but probably happened somewhere else) scenarios: It doesn't rely on him running it, it just runs under his UID. A widely distributed authentication/security process does an internal healthcheck by looking up 'jbezos' on the datastore. A few hours ago someone disabled the jbezos user.
- nodesocket 5y ago
  Honestly this explanation is not that far fetched at all, in fact plausible.
- grogenaut 5y ago
  nah a long time ago they moved everything to run as 'nobody' and that was before the move off of those systems and onto things like ECS. fun fact jeff's employee id is like 72 or something while still being the lowest as they didn't reset the oracle sequence once they got that system working after testing but before making his user.
  - paranoidrobot 5y ago
    I know it's unlikely, but I've grown (even more) sceptical over the years. I've stopped being surprised when I encounter some configuration file somewhere with a comment: "TODO: Fix this later" and it turns out more than half the business relies on that thing being configured that way. Even at companies who do have the money and technical resources to do things right, things get forgotten, or pushed back on. So, while these are problems that are unlikely, I'm sure I'm not the only one wondering... "Did they have something dumb like this, too?"
- paxys 5y ago
  Would be a fun story but Bezos is still the executive chairman of Amazon, so his user account will be left very much intact.
  - paranoidrobot 5y ago
    Ok, so the account still exists, but it's now in a different OU and so the healthcheck that looks for it in the Office of the CEO ou fails... Again, a joke, but I've seen stuff fail in other dumb ways because of some assumptions that were made about things that never change (until the day they do).
dylan604 5y ago
I envision the bunker from Lost where every 30 mins a code must be typed in to keep things running. Now you know why Bezos dind't want to do it any longer.

xyst 5y ago

Loading up on weekly AMZN puts this week sounds like a pretty good idea

BoorishBears 5y ago
If you want to lose money, sure.
- fridif 5y ago
  Ah yes, the old "literally can't go wrong trade", FAANG calls
nodesocket 5y ago
Not even a grain of sand for AMZN, foolish if you serious.
kortilla 5y ago
This event already happened. Any puts you buy tomorrow will have taken this outage into account.

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