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Part of this is also naïveté of people spinning up systems in AWS us-east-1. Any SRE or operator will tell you to never spin up systems in there unless you have

Part of this is also naïveté of people spinning up systems in AWS us-east-1. Any SRE or operator will tell you to never spin up systems in there unless you have a requirement to do so. It’s long been a tribal knowledge of the instability. This outage is more widespread than others but I see region level outages, at least partial ones, happen there every 1-2 years on average

hdgvhicv 1y ago
Our file deliveries to from s3 failed because despite being eu-west-1/2 authentication relied on us-east-1 From what understand that’s a feature you can’t opt out of. AWS is a single on if failure. The same point used globally by an industry that can’t imagine any other way. Diversity is defence. Monoculture is a strategic weakness.