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Does Amazon host its core infrastructure in us-east-1?
by astrea 5y ago
Does Amazon host its core infrastructure in us-east-1?
- jdavis703 5y agoIt would appear so. Also it’s good Amazon has skin in the game here.
- riffic 5y agowhy wouldn't they?
- cbtacy 5y agoBecause it's terrible and has always been terrible? After 2017 I'll never use US-east-1 again. Hell... I should have learned that particular lesson in 2011 but it took two catastrophic failures for me to figure it out. There are numerous threads here on HN covering the topic "why does US-east-1 suck so hard." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13756082 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13756082 is just one example.
- bombcar 5y agoMaybe it’s terrible because they host their own stuff there.
- eyelidlessness 5y agoThat's the story of AWS as a whole.
- hinkley 5y agoI wonder if there’s too much moral hazard for them to run a data center just for Amazon but run exactly the same as the other data centers? Or would Amazon scope creep it into its own snowflake. I kind of doubt that they’re getting efficient use of hardware Amazon could be using but isn’t, since if someone allocates it it’s not available for Amazon anymore.
- jtdev 5y agous-east-1 is considered to be the least stable AWS US datacenter. Not sure if this has changed, but I believe it was because AWS uses us-east-1 as the “proving ground” for deployment of new services, systems, processes, etc.
- imwillofficial 5y agoIf their stuff was all super resilient and multi AZ, it would be easier to place blame on the customer
- haggy102 5y agoMulti AZ != Multi region. AWS has many services that run in multiple regions but some of their services are not.
- imwillofficial 5y agoCorrect, I mean region. Thank you
- sp332 5y agoYes, and also: [9:37 AM PST] We are seeing impact to multiple AWS APIs in the US-EAST-1 Region. This issue is also affecting some of our monitoring and incident response tooling, which is delaying our ability to provide updates. https://status.aws.amazon.com/ https://status.aws.amazon.com/
- shepherdjerred 5y agoSome of it. Lots of stuff is distributed, but us-east-1 hosts some global internal services
- NaturalPhallacy 5y agoEast was the first region. Salty programmers avoid it when possible. Because it's the oldest and cruftiest region.