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A comment on AWS EC2/RDS Outage in us-east-1.

Re:AWS EC2/RDS Outage in us-east-1 by riffic on Saturday August 31, 2019 @11:32AM (#20846860)
>We are investigating connectivity issues affecting some instances in a single Availability Zone in the US-EAST-1 Region.

Well there’s your problem, people. Use multiple AZs.

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Re:AWS EC2/RDS Outage in us-east-1 by doiwin on Saturday August 31, 2019 @11:33AM (#20846876)
Easier said then done if that would mean synchronizing database and filesystem that is heavily written to.
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Re:AWS EC2/RDS Outage in us-east-1 by holykin on Saturday August 31, 2019 @11:37AM (#20846908)
Depends on what you use. RDS can span AZs and failover in events like this.
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Re:AWS EC2/RDS Outage in us-east-1 by ceejayoz on Saturday August 31, 2019 @11:32AM (#20846868)
AWS always understates the scope on the status page.
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