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'Thermal event' causing outages in AWS EU-west-2

• politelemon 4y ago
  Thermal event is an interesting choice of phrasing isn't it? Assuming a cooling failure, they could say cooling failure. When I read thermal event I'm imagining... A server catching fire, really hot weather, too many servers at 100%cpu next to each other, someone smoking in the building, a Molotov, arson. Unless that's it and they don't want to say the real reason.
  • wjdp 4y ago
    Thought the same! Scale includes everything from a minor AC fault through to entire building burning to the ground.
  • TheAdamist 4y ago
    It's probably a script generating the text. Should it have assumptions based on temperature readings? >10,000k => nuclear attack / supernova?
  • brian-armstrong 4y ago
    They don't use AC in Europe so probably it just got too hot even with the windows open
    • tehbeard 4y ago
      In homes maybe that's true for the moment. But we've got plenty of it in offices and public areas, and definitely within datacentres over here...
      • MetaMonk 4y ago
        woosh
• mdaniel 4y ago
  I had never seen that account style before, so I checked, and yup: * https://twitter.com/us_east_1 https://twitter.com/us_east_1 * https://twitter.com/us_east_2 https://twitter.com/us_east_2 * https://twitter.com/us_west_1 https://twitter.com/us_west_1 * https://twitter.com/us_west_2 https://twitter.com/us_west_2 (although, lol, "Account suspended. Twitter suspends accounts that violate the Twitter Rules.") I think it's cute that their account's "Location" is set to the right city
• myroon5 4y ago
  luckily not one of the largest regions: https://github.com/patmyron/cloud/#ip-addresses-per-region https://github.com/patmyron/cloud/#ip-addresses-per-region