Important to keep in mind that AWS has 250 services in 84 Availability Zones in 26 regions.

This outage is reportedly impacting 5 services in 1 region.

For those impacted, pretty terrible. But as a heavy user of AWS, I’ve seen these notices posted multiple times on HN and haven’t been impacted by one yet.

Counterpoint:

us-east-1 is their largest reason, someone told me it's 50% of their revenue

multi-region failover is awfully, awfully expensive.

In my last 7 years I imagine we had ~1 outage a month on average from AWS failures, but who knows if my imagination is accurate.

For businesses with uptime guarantees and lots of boxes to spin up in failover scenario, this has been a very eventful 12 months. At least that's what I'm experiencing.

Absolutely no way to prove this but maybe Q1 deadlines coming up and people trying to launch things and make changes?

Increase in attrition across the industry.

A lot of institutional knowledge in these massive tech corporations is disappearing and we're starting to reach the tipping point.

See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30621190

But there's always been attrition. What are some of the ways that is now different that is affecting attrition rates and their effects?

Probably increased salary and switch to permanent remote. Amazon is notorious for their frugality and they recently doubled their maximum salary cap to 350k. They would only have done this to stay competitive in the current job market. This implies that many of their existing employees are underpaid relative to their peers at comparable companies and they've likely seen a large uptick in attrition. Not to mention attrition begets more attrition, especially if it's "influential" employees who are leaving.

> Amazon is notorious for their frugality and they recently doubled their maximum salary cap to 350k

Does that salary cap apply to regular enterprise developers working for HR, Accounting, etc., too?

If so, kudos to Amazon.

Why wouldn’t the cap apply to those devs as well?

I can’t imagine why it wouldn’t.

It’s just a little amazing to imagine that people doing the same work in different places of the country have such huge gaps in salary caps. I think the national average for a high-level software engineer is less than $150k per year.

Things are bigger anywhere. My colleagues and I thought we’re hot shit managing 5-7k applications and infrastructure. Amazon probably runs 20,000 orgs like mine.

Also, times are good and rates are crazy. Even at VARs, you can make a lot of cash. I have a buddy who went from $150k to $600k. The guy paid off his mortgage and is at a point where he could burn out and work at Home Depot if he needed to.

A handful of large-traffic sites have recently, and relatively suddenly, started blocking traffic from a large region. That's a major change in flow.

Could you be more specific?

Russia / sanctions, I'm guessing.

> What’s up with all of the multi-platform outages lately? Seems abnormal looking at historical data.

Source?

Russian war is another juicy possibility

told myself I'd click this submission's comments link, CTRL+F `Russia`, & quit HN for the day if anything came up, thanks for not disappointing

Haha, no problemo.

Elevated risk of cyberattacks due to foreign meddling.

https://www.cisa.gov/shields-up

This is a pretty big claim to make. Do you have any sources that back it up?

Indeed I do.

It is public information within America that we are to be at “Shields Up” readiness.