Man, AWS is at it again. That big outage on Oct 20 was rough, and now (Oct 29) it looks like things are shaky again. SMH.
us-east-1 feels like a single point of failure for half the internet. People really need to look into multi-region, maybe even use AI like Zast.ai for intelligent failover so we're not all dead in the water when N. Virginia sneezes.
Tbh, for most companies/orgs the cost/complexity of multi region just isn't worth it.
The cost of a work days worth of downtime is rarely enough to justify the expense of trying to deploy across multiple regions or clouds.
Esp if you are public facing and not internal. You just go 'well everyone else was down to because of aws' and your customers just go 'ah okay fair enough'
That sounds like engineering work and expense without a dollar sign attached to it, so maybe it’ll happen after all the product work (i.e. never.)
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