Re:AWS Multiple Services Down in us-east-1
by jacquesm on Monday October 20, 2025 @06:24AM
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Often simply the lack of a backup outside of the main cloud account.
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Sure, but on a typical outage how likely is it that you'll have that all up and running before the outage is resolved?
And secondly, how often do you create that backup and are you willing to lose the writes since the last backup?
That backup is absolutely something people should have, but I doubt those are ever used to bring a service back up. That would be a monumental failure of your hosting provider (colo/cloud/whatever)
Re:AWS Multiple Services Down in us-east-1
by jacquesm on Monday October 20, 2025 @07:33AM
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> Sure, but on a typical outage how likely is it that you'll have that all up and running before the outage is resolved?
Not, but if some Amazon flunky decides to kill your account to protect the Amazon brand then you will at least survive, even if you'll lose some data.