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It's always East 1... Jokes aside I don't understand how often east-1 is taken down compared to other regions. Like it should be pretty similar to other regions
by corvad 5mo ago
It's always East 1... Jokes aside I don't understand how often east-1 is taken down compared to other regions. Like it should be pretty similar to other regions architecture wise.
- tom1337 5mo agoIsn't east one the "core" datacenter and also the oldest? I'd imagine it has more load than the other regions and also has more tech debt and architectural / engineering debt because they had less experience when they built it. Also iirc some services rely on east-1 as a single point of failure for configuration (like IAM or some S3 stuff?)
- doitLP 5mo agoYes it tends to have the most things running in it, including backbone and internal services that only exist in that region.
- __turbobrew__ 5mo agoWhat I have seen at other companies is that the older datacenters have suboptimal designs which are impossible to fix after the fact.
- JimDabell 5mo agoAmusingly: > AWS in 2025: The Stuff You Think You Know That’s Now Wrong > us-east-1 is no longer a merrily burning dumpster fire of sadness and regret. — https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/aws-in-2025-the-stuff-you-think-you-know-thats-now-wrong/ https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/aws-in-2025-the-stuff-you... Otherwise a good article!
- tardedmeme 5mo ago> Otherwise a good article! Who is Gell-Mann and why is he so forgetful?
- bandrami 5mo agoIt's the oldest regional system and has some structural importance (e.g. the internal CA resides there I think)