And in 2 years, it will be back in the headlines! Because us-east-1 always goes down, and AWS and its customers are destined to repeat the same mistakes, and reporters will rinse & repeat.
Honestly - the worst part was that the AWS web console was affected. Even companies & teams that have multi-region failover and DR plans struggle when they can’t use the console.
AWS seems to have a helluva lot of failure points too. I’m not an IT expert, but I’m pretty sure this is far from the first time this has happened, correct?
They had a big us-east-1 S3 outage back in ~2018 (docker hub went down then too), and another us-east-1 DynamoDB outage ~3 years ago…
On the whole, they do an amazing job. But when they have a big issue, it will be something tricky and painful … they tackled the low hanging fruit years ago.
And in 2 years, it will be back in the headlines! Because us-east-1 always goes down, and AWS and its customers are destined to repeat the same mistakes, and reporters will rinse & repeat.
Honestly - the worst part was that the AWS web console was affected. Even companies & teams that have multi-region failover and DR plans struggle when they can’t use the console.
AWS seems to have a helluva lot of failure points too. I’m not an IT expert, but I’m pretty sure this is far from the first time this has happened, correct?
They had a big us-east-1 S3 outage back in ~2018 (docker hub went down then too), and another us-east-1 DynamoDB outage ~3 years ago…
On the whole, they do an amazing job. But when they have a big issue, it will be something tricky and painful … they tackled the low hanging fruit years ago.