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Re:AWS vs. GCP reliability is wildly different by dheera on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @06:44PM (#32932565)
Using HTTP error codes for non-REST things is cringe.

503 would mean the IaaS API calls themselves are unavailable. Very different from the API working perfectly fine but the instances not being available.

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Re:AWS vs. GCP reliability is wildly different by devmunchies on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @07:34PM (#32933038)
What? REST is just some API philosophy, its doesn't even have to be on top of HTTP.

Why would you think HTTP status codes are made for REST? They are made for HTTP to describe the response of the resource you are requesting, and the AWS API uses HTTP so it makes sense to use HTTP status codes.

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