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Re:Amazon packages pile up after AWS outage spawns delivery ... by notfromhere on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @11:33PM (#29481281)
Us-East-1 took out commuter rail travel in Chicago for like a good 30 minutes, so not just companies
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Re:Amazon packages pile up after AWS outage spawns delivery ... by kennydude on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @04:20AM (#29482661)
Why is a commuter rail travel system dependent on AWS? O___O
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Re:Amazon packages pile up after AWS outage spawns delivery ... by wil421 on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @08:37AM (#29484507)
From what I’ve seen about Government IT it’s probably a good thing it’s on AWS.

Why shouldn’t Government IT be using the same tools regular companies use for IT?

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Re:Amazon packages pile up after AWS outage spawns delivery ... by kennydude on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @10:15AM (#29485700)
Government IT using AWS is fine. Using it for safety critical things like railways is a lot more of an issue. What if there's any kind of latency etc?
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Re:Amazon packages pile up after AWS outage spawns delivery ... by t3rabytes on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @08:08AM (#29484251)
They decided to run their infra in AWS instead of another cloud provider or on-prem?

why is McDonalds dependent on AWS for their app to work? (/s)

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Re:Amazon packages pile up after AWS outage spawns delivery ... by jaxrtech on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @11:48PM (#29481364)
> Us-East-1 took out commuter rail travel in Chicago for like a good 30 minutes, so not just companies

Was it Metra or the CTA out of curiosity?

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Re:Amazon packages pile up after AWS outage spawns delivery ... by phantomread on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @12:12AM (#29481483)
In Chicago I believe “commuter rail” almost always refers to Metra.
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