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Important 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 th
by 300bps 5y ago
Important 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.