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I wonder how often outages really happen. The official page is nonsense, of course, and we only collectively notice when the outage is big enough that lots of u

I wonder how often outages really happen. The official page is nonsense, of course, and we only collectively notice when the outage is big enough that lots of us are affected. On AWS, I see about a 3:1 ratio of "bump in the night" outages (quickly resolved, little corroboration) to mega too-big-to-hide outages. Does that mirror others' experiences?

Spivak 5y ago
If you count any time AWS is having a problem that impacts our production workloads then I think it's about 5:1. Dealing with "AWS is down" outages are easy because I can just sit back and grab some popcorn, it's the "dammit I know this is AWS's fault" outages that are a PITA because you count yourself lucky to even get a report in your personalized dashboard.
- jjoonathan 5y ago
  Yep. Random aside: any chance you are related to the Calculus on Manifolds Spivak?
  - Spivak 5y ago
    Nope, just a fan. It was the book that pioneered my love of math.
  - clh1126 5y ago
    I had to log in to say, that one of my favorite quotes of all time I found in Calculus on Manifolds. He says that any good theorem is worth generalizing, and I've generalized that to any life rule.