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Can we please stop saying, “AWS is down”? AWS consists of over 200 services offered in 86 availability zones in 26 regions each with their own availability. I
by 300bps 5y ago
Can we please stop saying, “AWS is down”?
AWS consists of over 200 services offered in 86 availability zones in 26 regions each with their own availability.
If one service in one availability zone being impaired equals a post about “AWS is down” we might as well auto-post that every day.
- sawmurai 5y agoIt's like my grandma saying "Honey, the internet is broken again." xD
- KptMarchewa 5y agoWould be cool if this wasn't the region where AWS hosts their internals, making other regions unusable, right?
- satya71 5y agoSeems enough services in us-east-1 are down to cause most apps to fail. My simple app uses 10s of AWS services, at least some of which are out.
- 300bps 5y agoI may have seen more of these posts than you. The last one I saw where “AWS is down” was us-west-1.
- omh2 5y agoAWS doesn't follow their own advice about hosting multi-regional so every time us-east-1 has significant issues pretty much every AZ and region is affected. Specifically large parts of the management API, and IAM service are seemingly centrally hosted in us-east-1. If your infrastructure is static you'll largely avoid the fallout, but if you rely on API calls or dynamically created resources you can get caught in the blast regardless of region