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What’s up with all of the multi-platform outages lately? Seems abnormal looking at historical data. Are there issues affecting the internet backbone or somethin
by operator1 5y ago
What’s up with all of the multi-platform outages lately? Seems abnormal looking at historical data. Are there issues affecting the internet backbone or something? Or just a coincidence?
- 9wzYQbTYsAIc 5y agoElevated risk of cyberattacks due to foreign meddling. https://www.cisa.gov/shields-up https://www.cisa.gov/shields-up
- btgeekboy 5y agoThis is a pretty big claim to make. Do you have any sources that back it up?
- 9wzYQbTYsAIc 5y agoIndeed I do. It is public information within America that we are to be at “Shields Up” readiness.
- super_linear 5y agoAbsolutely no way to prove this but maybe Q1 deadlines coming up and people trying to launch things and make changes?
- 300bps 5y agoImportant to keep in mind that AWS has 250 services in 84 Availability Zones in 26 regions. This outage is reportedly impacting 5 services in 1 region. For those impacted, pretty terrible. But as a heavy user of AWS, I’ve seen these notices posted multiple times on HN and haven’t been impacted by one yet.
- quxbar 5y agoFor businesses with uptime guarantees and lots of boxes to spin up in failover scenario, this has been a very eventful 12 months. At least that's what I'm experiencing.
- late2part 5y agoCounterpoint: us-east-1 is their largest reason, someone told me it's 50% of their revenue multi-region failover is awfully, awfully expensive. In my last 7 years I imagine we had ~1 outage a month on average from AWS failures, but who knows if my imagination is accurate.
- xeromal 5y agoRussian war is another juicy possibility
- adamrezich 5y agotold myself I'd click this submission's comments link, CTRL+F `Russia`, & quit HN for the day if anything came up, thanks for not disappointing
- xeromal 5y agoHaha, no problemo.
- frays 5y agoIncrease in attrition across the industry. A lot of institutional knowledge in these massive tech corporations is disappearing and we're starting to reach the tipping point.
- fragmede 5y agoBut there's always been attrition. What are some of the ways that is now different that is affecting attrition rates and their effects?
- stone-monkey 5y agoProbably increased salary and switch to permanent remote. Amazon is notorious for their frugality and they recently doubled their maximum salary cap to 350k. They would only have done this to stay competitive in the current job market. This implies that many of their existing employees are underpaid relative to their peers at comparable companies and they've likely seen a large uptick in attrition. Not to mention attrition begets more attrition, especially if it's "influential" employees who are leaving.
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- 9wzYQbTYsAIc 5y ago> Amazon is notorious for their frugality and they recently doubled their maximum salary cap to 350k Does that salary cap apply to regular enterprise developers working for HR, Accounting, etc., too? If so, kudos to Amazon.
- sokoloff 5y agoWhy wouldn’t the cap apply to those devs as well?
- 9wzYQbTYsAIc 5y ago
- thethethethe 5y ago> What’s up with all of the multi-platform outages lately? Seems abnormal looking at historical data. Source?
- nix0n 5y agoA handful of large-traffic sites have recently, and relatively suddenly, started blocking traffic from a large region. That's a major change in flow.
- WinterMount223 5y agoCould you be more specific?
- jrockway 5y agoRussia / sanctions, I'm guessing.