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Re:We migrated our PostgreSQL database with 11 seconds downtime by ClassicOrgin on Thursday January 18, 2024 @07:21PM (#39049953)
Minor detail but did anyone else notice they are using eu-west-1? Kind of weird for the UK to be hosting there sites in another country (Ireland). I'm sure this isn't super sensitive data but still.
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Re:We migrated our PostgreSQL database with 11 seconds downtime by esskay on Thursday January 18, 2024 @07:38PM (#39050111)
They've been on AWS since before eu-west-2 was added, it's still not at the scale of eu-west-1. Capacity issues are still a thing (but getting much better), and only recently have they become pretty much feature parallel.
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Re:We migrated our PostgreSQL database with 11 seconds downtime by lozenge on Thursday January 18, 2024 @07:23PM (#39049971)
The London AWS region was missing a lot of features for a long time. It's easier to just go with a big region.
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Re:We migrated our PostgreSQL database with 11 seconds downtime by justinclift on Thursday January 18, 2024 @09:00PM (#39050729)
"Lets go with the easier approach" is a bit worrying when it means potentially breaking security assumptions / legal assurances.

Though I guess it could be explained away by having something in the website's "Terms and Conditions for use". ;)

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Re:We migrated our PostgreSQL database with 11 seconds downtime by juggertao on Friday January 19, 2024 @01:16AM (#39052109)
It's a gov website. What are they going to do, sue themselves?
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Re:We migrated our PostgreSQL database with 11 seconds downtime by another2another on Friday January 19, 2024 @05:00AM (#39053632)
Have a public enquiry, with lots of tea.
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Re:We migrated our PostgreSQL database with 11 seconds downtime by callalex on Friday January 19, 2024 @02:43AM (#39052726)
It made a lot more sense before…you know…the thing that made no sense.
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Re:We migrated our PostgreSQL database with 11 seconds downtime by kitd on Friday January 19, 2024 @03:22AM (#39052967)
I think one of the bits of carry-over legislation in the Withdrawal Agreement after Brexit was the UK continuing to comply with GDPR. So using an Irish DC is still ok.
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