AWS us-east-1 outage

Re:AWS us-east-1 outage by kator on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @12:07PM (#29475143)

I've worked for Amazon for 4 years, including stints at AWS, and even in my current role my team is involved in LSE's. I've never seen this behavior, the general culture has been find the problem, fix it, and then do root cause analysis to avoid it again.

Jeff himself has said many times in All Hands and in public "Amazon is the best place to fail". Mainly because things will break, it's not that they break that's interesting, it's what you've learned and how you can avoid that problem in the future.

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Re:AWS us-east-1 outage by jsperson on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @01:43PM (#29476498)

I guess the question is why can't you (AWS) fix the problem of the status page not reflecting an outage? Maybe acceptable if the console has a hiccup, but when www.amazon.com isn't working right, there should be some yellow and red dots out there.

With the size of your customer base there were man years spent confirming the outage after checking the status.

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Re:AWS us-east-1 outage by andrewguenther on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @02:33PM (#29477153)

Because there's a VP approval step for updating the status page and no repercussions for VPs who don't approve updates in a timely manner. Updating the status page is fully automated on both sides of VP approval. If the status page doesn't update, it's because a VP wouldn't do it.

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Re:AWS us-east-1 outage by Eduard on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @04:16PM (#29478332)

LSE?

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Re:AWS us-east-1 outage by merciBien on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @04:19PM (#29478354)

Large Scale Event

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