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Re:AWS Multiple Services Down in us-east-1 by snowwrestler on Monday October 20, 2025 @08:39AM (#45643223)
I would take the opposite view, the little AWS outages are an opportunity to test your disaster recovery plan, which is worth doing even if it takes a little time.

It’s not hard to imagine events that would keep AWS dark for a long period of time, especially if you’re just in one region. The outage today was in us-east-1. Companies affected by it might want to consider at least geographic diversity, if not supplier diversity.

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Re:AWS Multiple Services Down in us-east-1 by SteveNuts on Monday October 20, 2025 @10:40AM (#45644437)
> Companies affected by it might want to consider at least geographic diversity, if not supplier diversity.

Sure, it's worth considering, but for most companies it's not going to be worth the engineering effort to architect cross-cloud services. The complexity is NOT linear.

IMO most shops should focus on testing backups (which should be at least cross-cloud, potentially on-prem of some sort) to make sure their data integrity is solid. Your data can't be recreated, everything else can be rebuilt even if it takes a long time.

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