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TIL okta is in us-west-2

• pdx6 5y ago
  Okta uses nearly all the us regions, with older (and larger) customers in us-east-1. I used to work there and know the internals well. These aws outages must be causing massive chaos there.
• gabrielsroka 5y ago
  With redundancy in other regions https://www.okta.com/video/oktane19-roadmap-why-building-customer-identity-is-hard/ https://www.okta.com/video/oktane19-roadmap-why-building-cus...
  • marcinzm 5y ago
    Given they were down I would say there was, in practice, no redundancy. Simply claiming something doesn't make it true.
    • gabrielsroka 5y ago
      I don't know the details but they don't fail over automatically. There has to be a reason to push the button. Perhaps the reason did not exist this time. But I know for sure that there is redundancy.
      • marcinzm 5y ago
        Redundancy is only relevant if it helps you in an outage. Otherwise it's just a pointless marketing term no matter how much effort you put into it.
      • stevehawk 5y ago
        So Okta's redundancy is about as reliable as AWS's status page?