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AWS is architected in a way that makes global failures harder, e.g. VPC’s only span a region.
by ec109685 4y ago
AWS is architected in a way that makes global failures harder, e.g. VPC’s only span a region.
- jvolkman 4y agoSo instead people just stuff all of their infrastructure into one giant region and hope for the best.
- nijave 4y agoThat, or it's the customers fault for not reading the docs and building their thing wrong
- zamnos 4y agoAh yes, blame the victim style of debate.
- bananapub 4y agoif you put everything in us-east-1, then when you're down, then so almost everyone else who might write about you or criticise you
- nightpool 4y agoThe last time us-east-1 went down, if memory serves, it took down the entirety of ec2 provisioning with it.
- Terretta 4y agoAWS was architected this way. They were starting to bend to GCP sales pressure* to globalize. Fingers crossed this slows that roll. * actually enterprise I.T. purchasing demand, to be clear