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Re:Summary of the AWS Service Event in the Northern Virginia... by notimetorelax on Friday December 10, 2021 @06:30PM (#29516779)
If you were deployed in 2 regions would it alleviate the impact?
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Re:Summary of the AWS Service Event in the Northern Virginia... by multipassnetwrk on Friday December 10, 2021 @07:12PM (#29517086)
Depends. If your failover to another region required changing DNS and your DNS was using Route 53, you would have problems.
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Re:Summary of the AWS Service Event in the Northern Virginia... by ransom1538 on Friday December 10, 2021 @06:45PM (#29516886)
Yes. Exactly. Pay double. That is what all the blogs say. But no, when a region goes down everything is hosed. Give it a shot! Next time an entire region is down try out your apis or give AWS support a call.
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Re:Summary of the AWS Service Event in the Northern Virginia... by hvgk on Friday December 10, 2021 @06:51PM (#29516928)
No. We don't have an active deployment in that region at all. It killed our build pipeline as ECR was down globally so we had nowhere to push images. Also there was a massive risk as our target environments are EKS so any node failures or scaling events had nowhere to pull images from while ECR was down.

Edit: not to mention APIGW and Cloudwatch APIs were down too.

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