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CenturyLink also had a recent outage that caused 911 calls to stop working for Las Vegas, the state of South Dakota, and other areas. They blamed it on a third
by hypeatei 3y ago
CenturyLink also had a recent outage that caused 911 calls to stop working for Las Vegas, the state of South Dakota, and other areas. They blamed it on a third party light pole installation but it's being investigated.
Seems insane to me that a single line being severed could bring down 911.
- preinheimer 3y agoA lot of smart people discover their fully redundant architecture has a single point of failure during an outage. AWS has had a fair number of large profile outages and service degradation, including a few that crossed zones, even though that "can't happen".
- olyjohn 3y agoRedundancy is a cost. Why pay the cost when your customers can't leave?