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I've been in AWS for almost twenty years at this point. It's been a long time since I've seen a global outage of the data plane on anything. The control plane
by abofh 5mo ago
I've been in AWS for almost twenty years at this point. It's been a long time since I've seen a global outage of the data plane on anything. The control plane, especially the US-east-1 services? Yes - but if you're off of east-1, your outages are measured in missile strikes, not botched deployments.
- andreareina 5mo agoDidn't the latest outage affect people not on us-east-1 because internal aws services depend on us-east-1?
- erikerikson 5mo agoThe impacts are usually partial. For example, scaling is impacted but everything already deployed contributes to work up to capacity. Or, you can't change configuration but the previous configuration works as configured. Often surprisingly not so impactful even if there can be limited work stoppage.
- hasyimibhar 5mo agoThe problem with the us-east-1 outage is that a lot of big companies are there, so even if you try your best not to depend on us-east-1, your third party providers are most likely there. In my previous company, we were completely down during us-east-1 outage because of other dependencies that are beyond our control.
- erikerikson 5mo agoEntirely fair. I have thus far avoided that problem. Not always engineering's choice.
- HighGoldstein 5mo agoConsidering how many AWS and non-AWS services go down at least partially when us-east-1 fails, this reads somewhat like "Don't worry that the steering wheel and pedals aren't working, your engine is still running on cruise control".
- happymellon 5mo agoWork for a major bank who isn't solely in US East 1. No it didn't impact us.
- shrikant 5mo agoI can easily remember a few multi-hour AWS incidents from the last few years, since I've had to handle the resulting fires at my various employers at those times. Not sure how you missed these, or do they not count as "global outages" for some reason? December 2021: https://www.cloudcomputing-news.net/news/aws-outage-takes-down-coinbase-netflix-disney/ https://www.cloudcomputing-news.net/news/aws-outage-takes-do... June 2023: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-scoop-52 https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-scoop-52 October 2025: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/20/amazon-web-services-outage-takes-down-major-websites.html https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/20/amazon-web-services-outage-t... Each of these were massive outages impacting very large services across the web.