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We should ask this question to ourselves: As a user, if I have to manage the risk of US-East-1 going down, may be we should question this entire Cloud thing. It
by systemvoltage 4y ago
We should ask this question to ourselves: As a user, if I have to manage the risk of US-East-1 going down, may be we should question this entire Cloud thing. It was marketed as "100% bulletproof" in 2005 when we discarded on-prem.
- iso1631 4y agoTo be fair to amazon I don't think they've had an outage that affected different data centres at the same time, but yes I would far rather have my main and backup on two providers in two appropriately diverse locations.
- dopp0 4y agobut never forget that AWS uses us-east-1 to host core services that, when they go down, they take almost the whole thing down, no matter which region.
- iso1631 4y agoWhich specific services? I only use VMs and route53, and form what I've seen when us-east-1 is down I can still resolve my domains