AWS Multiple Services Down in us-east-1

Re:AWS Multiple Services Down in us-east-1 by throw0101d on Monday October 20, 2025 @09:26AM (#45643635)

> imagine if the electricity supplier too that stance.

Imagine if the cloud supplier was actually as important as the electricity supplier.

But since you mention it, there are instances of this and provisions for getting back up and running:

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Re:AWS Multiple Services Down in us-east-1 by chii on Monday October 20, 2025 @10:38PM (#45651865)

and how many times have aws gone down majorly like that? I think you wouldn't be able to count it.

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Re:AWS Multiple Services Down in us-east-1 by throw0101d on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @10:09AM (#45656022)

As someone who lives in Ontario, Canada, I got hit by the 2003 grid outage, which is once in >20 years. Seems like a fairly good uptime to me.

(Each electrical grid can perhaps be considered analogous to a separate cloud provider. Or perhaps, in US/CA, regions:

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