2 ms·
All the clouds will go down at the same time. The control planes for all them are heavily managed in Seattle.
by sitkack 4y ago
All the clouds will go down at the same time. The control planes for all them are heavily managed in Seattle.
- washbrain 4y agoAWS has lots of engineers in Seattle, but control plane is distributed. I'd personally expect a long delay in getting any fixes to things, but that many sites would be just fine.
- bee_rider 4y agoFor some reason I had the impression that us-east-1 was kind of the flagship for AWS, although actually typing that out seems quite silly.
- washbrain 4y agoIt is the flagship.
- DrBazza 4y agoBut are all the buildings on the MS campus, for example, "built to code"? (that's the US phrase isn't it). Do we reasonably expect most, let's say, post-80s buildings to survive a magnitude 9+?
- spookthesunset 4y agoMost of the buildings that are more than a few stories tall on that campus are definitely build to modern-ish code. They’ve been slowing replacing the original stack with new office buildings.
- sitkack 4y agoI think you overestimate how resilient any of the cloud providers are to a massive gray failure. Lots of west coast infrastructure will flap. The survivors will have other priorities. I am going to revise my statement, I predict! a partial or nearly complete failure of the internet across multiple continents when this earthquake goes off.