Comment by peacebeard
4 hours ago
A lot of products use AWS because "we could build redundancy and multi-region if we need it" and then never build it.
4 hours ago
A lot of products use AWS because "we could build redundancy and multi-region if we need it" and then never build it.
I think some of the issues in the last outage actually affected multiple regions. IIRC internally some critical infrastructure for AWS depends on us-east-1 or at least it failed in a way that didn't allow failover.