News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on AWS Multiple Services Down in us-east-1. Parent comment

Re:AWS Multiple Services Down in us-east-1 by leptons on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @03:26PM (#45673964)
The problems with us-east-1 have been apparent for a long time, many years. Once I started using us-east-1 long ago, and seeing the problems there, I moved everything to us-west-1 and stopped having those problems. EC2 instances were completely unreliable in us-east-1 (we were running hundreds to thousands at a time), not so in us-west-1. The error rates we were seeing were awful in us-east-1.

A negligible cost difference shouldn't matter when your apps are unstable due to the region being problematic.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:AWS Multiple Services Down in us-east-1 by AbstractH24 on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @03:53PM (#45674295)
> A negligible cost difference shouldn't matter when your apps are unstable due to the region being problematic.

agreed, but a sizable cohort of people don't have the foresight or incentives for think past their nose and clicking the cheapest option.

So its on Amazon to incentivize what's best.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:AWS Multiple Services Down in us-east-1 by leptons on Thursday October 23, 2025 @02:38PM (#45685233)
People's lack of curiosity, enough to not even explore the other options, is not Amazon's problem.
[ Parent | on HN ]