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On one hand it's allows to shift the blame but on other hand is shows a disadvantage of hyper centralization - if AWS is down too many important services are do
by citrin_ru 1y ago
On one hand it's allows to shift the blame but on other hand is shows a disadvantage of hyper centralization - if AWS is down too many important services are down at the same time which makes it worse. E. g. when AWS is down it's important to have communication/monitoring services UP so engineers can discuss / co-ordinate workarounds and have good visibility but Atlassian was (is) significantly degraded today too.
- anonymars 1y agoFacebook had a comically bad outage a few years ago wherein the internal sign-in, messaging, and even server keycard access went down https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Facebook_outage#Impact https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Facebook_outage#Impact Somewhat related tip of the day, don't host your status page as a subdomain off the main site. Ideally host it with a different provider entirely