Now I am waiting for time when they move us-east-1 physical security to run in us-east-1... Thus locking themselves out when needing some physical intervention on servers to get backup.
A lot of modern glass is hard to break. In many cases this is a safety feature (if you can't break the glass you can't get shoved out the window in a fight...)
This is in SEA. They probably operate from ap-southeast-1 or 2. But yeah, if the internet goes down, the provider service goes down or AWS goes down they are cooked.
As the parent said: “Everyone was locked out in a building am staying at (40 something stories) for several hours.”
Now I am waiting for time when they move us-east-1 physical security to run in us-east-1... Thus locking themselves out when needing some physical intervention on servers to get backup.
Facebook already got bit by this when their BGP setup pooped its pants on Oct 4, 2021
They could ask facebook for advice.
https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/52448/were-face...
I wonder what happened to the building when the internet went down. How do you get into the room to reboot the router?
There’s usually a back door with a physical key. The problem can be getting ahold of one of the people with that key though!
There is probably a break-glass procedure for such cases, like, break the literal window.
A lot of modern glass is hard to break. In many cases this is a safety feature (if you can't break the glass you can't get shoved out the window in a fight...)
Is that why there is a brick next to the procedure manual?
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This is in SEA. They probably operate from ap-southeast-1 or 2. But yeah, if the internet goes down, the provider service goes down or AWS goes down they are cooked.