Comment on Major AWS outage takes down Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat, and more
Uniquitous@beehaw.org 1 day agoIt was only the one AWS region that went down, us-east-1. Unfortunately that’s the big kahuna. But they’ve got regions and availability zones around the globe. The services that went down due to the outage need to get some cross-region redundancy happening, but that’s the kind of thing that’s never a priority until the moment you need it.
Rooster326@programming.dev 1 day ago
Even the places that did have redundancy - didn’t have actually tested failovers.
Source: working at a place hosted in multiple locations. Didn’t mean shit. Somebody, if not many somebody’s, is definitely getting fired when the smoke clears.