AWS us-east-1 outage

Re:AWS us-east-1 outage by jjoonathan on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @11:17AM (#29474246)

I wonder how often outages really happen. The official page is nonsense, of course, and we only collectively notice when the outage is big enough that lots of us are affected. On AWS, I see about a 3:1 ratio of "bump in the night" outages (quickly resolved, little corroboration) to mega too-big-to-hide outages. Does that mirror others' experiences?

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Re:AWS us-east-1 outage by Spivak on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @11:33AM (#29474532)

If you count any time AWS is having a problem that impacts our production workloads then I think it's about 5:1. Dealing with "AWS is down" outages are easy because I can just sit back and grab some popcorn, it's the "dammit I know this is AWS's fault" outages that are a PITA because you count yourself lucky to even get a report in your personalized dashboard.

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Re:AWS us-east-1 outage by jjoonathan on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @12:18PM (#29475314)

Yep.

Random aside: any chance you are related to the Calculus on Manifolds Spivak?

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Re:AWS us-east-1 outage by clh1126 on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @12:30PM (#29475501)

I had to log in to say, that one of my favorite quotes of all time I found in Calculus on Manifolds.

He says that any good theorem is worth generalizing, and I've generalized that to any life rule.

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Re:AWS us-east-1 outage by Spivak on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @12:27PM (#29475448)

Nope, just a fan. It was the book that pioneered my love of math.

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