AWS Multiple Services Down in us-east-1

Re:AWS Multiple Services Down in us-east-1 by junon on Monday October 20, 2025 @12:46PM (#45645997)

Seeing as how this is us-east-1, probably not a lot.

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Re:AWS Multiple Services Down in us-east-1 by redeux on Monday October 20, 2025 @12:49PM (#45646066)

I believe the implication is that a lot of critical AWS engineers are of Indian descent and are off celebrating today.

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Re:AWS Multiple Services Down in us-east-1 by herewulf on Monday October 20, 2025 @01:26PM (#45646584)

junon's implication may be that AWS engineers of Indian descent would tend to be located on the West Coast.

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Re:AWS Multiple Services Down in us-east-1 by jmedefind on Monday October 20, 2025 @02:10PM (#45647147)

North Virginia has a very large Indian community.

All the schools in the area have days off for Indian Holidays since so many would be out of school otherwise.

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Re:AWS Multiple Services Down in us-east-1 by hinkley on Monday October 20, 2025 @07:58PM (#45650892)

This broke in the middle of the day IST did it not? Why would you start waking up people in VA if it’s 3 in the morning there if you don’t have to?

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Re:AWS Multiple Services Down in us-east-1 by AutoDunkGPT on Monday October 20, 2025 @02:55PM (#45647711)

I bet you haven't gotten an email back from AWS support during twilight hours before.

There are 153k Amazon employees based in India according to LinkedIn.

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Re:AWS Multiple Services Down in us-east-1 by junon on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @06:49AM (#45654402)

Missing my point entirely.

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Re:AWS Multiple Services Down in us-east-1 by hinkley on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @02:24PM (#45673156)

Then I missed it too because I let my Indian coworkers handle production issues after 9,10pm unless the problem sounds an awful lot like the feature toggle I flipped on in production is setting servers on fire.

My main beef with that team was that we worked on too many stories in parallel so information on brand new work was siloed. Everyone caught up after a bit but stuff we just or hadn’t demoed yet was spotty for coverage.

If I was up at 1 am it was because I had insomnia and figured out exactly what the problem was and it was faster to fix it than to explain. Or if I wake up really early and the problem is still not fixed.

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