I hardly noticed. When I look at the shit companies that are affected I’m happy I’m not their customer.
I keep seeing all this stuff all over Lemmy and FB about the AWS outage and being in the northeast I dont understand how it hasn’t effected me in the slightest but I’ll take the W I guess !
I’m in the northeast as well, I couldn’t watch TV last night thanks to this. Count your blessings I guess.
Lol no kidding. All my friends complaining about the outage are in ri/ ma, I’m in VT. Not sure if I’m on the same servers as the rest of east coast? Don’t even know how to check honestly.
I had surgery today and couldn’t pick up my meds at the pharmacy because my insurance uses AWS somewhere in the billing process. We had to pay out of pocket and pray we get reimbursed because they’re expensive. This took 6 phone calls to find out and overall, sucked. I didn’t think AWS going down could affect my damn insurance.
In any sane place, with sane laws, they would just have to approve everything until they fix their own shit.
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I get what you’re saying, and agree, but there were many more, Ancestry.com and findagrave.com and many more were also down (while I’m in the middle of an ancestry fact finding trip). It really was massive.
Only site that got me was Riverside ☹️
I literally noticed zero difference. But it sounds bad. Have they tried shoving more AI in there to fix the problem?
75%? Those are rookie numbers. Gotta get that up around 200, 250%, then we’ll really get things started.
My DNS is a Lightsail instance out west, no issue.
As someone that works at another Amazon AWS dependent org, it also took out us. It was awful. Nothing I could do on my end. Why the fuck didn’t it get rolled back immediately? Why did it go to a second region? Fucking idiots on the big teams side.
I got paged 140 times between 12 and 4 am PDT. Then there was another one where I had to hand it off at 7am because I needed fucking sleep. And they handled it until 1pm. I love my team, but it’s so awful that this even was able to happen. All our our fuck ups take 5-30 mins to roll back or manually intervene. This took them 2+ hours, and it was painful. Then it HAPPENED AGAIN! Like what the fuck.
This is a good reason to start investing in multi region architecture at some point.
Not trying to be smug here or anything, but we updated a single config value, made a PR, and committed the change and we were switched over to a different region in a few minutes. Smooth sailing after that.
(This is still dependent to some degree on AWS in order to actually execute the failover, something we’re mulling over how to solve)
Now, our work demands we invest in such things, we’re even investing in multi-cloud (an actual nightmare). Not everyone can do this, and some systems are just not built to be able to, but if it’s within reach it’s probably worth it.
Last night from 12-4am, it was almost every region impacted so it didn’t help that much.
But we do have failovers for customers that they need to activate to just start working in another region.
But our canaries and infrastructure alarms cannot do that since they are for alerts in the region.
Oof.
I don’t even want to hear an argument for moving back on prem with how badly Broadcom/VMware ripped our eyes out this year. 350% increase over 2 years ago, and I still have to buy the hardware, secure it in a room, power it, buy redundant Internet and networking equipment, get a backup facility, buy and test a generator/UPS, and condition the damn air. Oh then every few years we have to switch out all the hardware when it stops getting vendor support.
At least everyone was all in the same boat today, and we all know what was broken.
Moving to Nutanix soon. Love their product. Proxmox looks good on paper too, just not mature enough in the enterprise to bet my paycheck on it.
Cloud infrastructure is expensive.
We’re a year or so into our AWS migration, but will have a presence on prem for years to come. Broadcom has seen our last dollar, so for what remains on prem, we will be moving to a different hypervisor. I was kinda hoping that Proxmox could be the one, but it may not shake out that way.
Lucky me needs Proxmox only for self-hosting and loves it :)
AWS salespeople, meeting customers today.
Today should have been easy for them tbh. “See? That’s why you should pay us more money to have active infra on our other regions to failover to!”
“Sir. Sir? Sir. (sigh) have you tried turning the internet off and on again?”
Worst part for me was when the rewards app at the tea shop wouldn’t work.
I hated it when I was trying to break to avoid hitting that pedestrian at the cross walk, and the brake pedal input does a roundtrip to AWS before activating the wheel brakes. For user statistics, for my safety. Not at all for AI training, we swear.
Oh well, had no choice but to drive-by that old hag.
What kind of tea did you get?
Iced combo of lemonade, plain, and blueberry. Crazy refreshing.
I think that’s called juice lol
sounds good though
Okay, who messed with the Network Switches?
It’s always DNS™
