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“Extreme consolidation” - wait till us-East-1 goes down
by nextworddev 3y ago
“Extreme consolidation” - wait till us-East-1 goes down
- _sword 3y agoHappened in 2012 after a big thunderstorm and took most of the internet down
- PeterZaitsev 3y agoYep. Though to be fair AWS provides options for multi region availability. What did not happen (yet) is complete AWS meltdown
- rezonant 3y agoAmazon sells it cheap compared to other regions-- it's economically incentivized for us-east-1 to take out half of the Internet.
- didip 3y agoFriends don’t let friends run on us-east-1. Consolidate on us-west-1 or us-west-2 instead.
- bobnamob 3y agous-west-1 wouldn’t be my first choice either for <other_reasons>
- booi 3y agous-west-1 seems small. They routinely run out of the instance size we request and the spot market seems.. unruly
- hoofhearted 3y agoVirginia is for lovers. Ohio is for uptime.