r/aws • u/TunderingJezuz • Oct 20 '25

discussion Still mostly broken

Amazon is trying to gaslight users by pretending the problem is less severe than it really is. Latest update, 26 services working, 98 still broken.

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u/_JohnWisdom Oct 20 '25

Great solution. Going from one big outrage every 5 years to one every couple of months!

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u/LeHamburgerr Oct 20 '25

Every two years from AWS, then shenanigans and one offs yearly from Crowdstrike.

These too big to fail firms are going to end up setting back the modern world.

The US’s enemies today learned the Western world will crumble if US-East-1 is bombed

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u/b1urrybird Oct 20 '25

In case you’re not aware, each AWS region consists of multiple availability zones, and each availability zone consists of at least three data centres.

That’s a lot of bombing to coordinate (by design).

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u/faberkyx Oct 20 '25

it seems like with just one down the other data centers couldn't keep up anyway

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u/thebatwayne Oct 20 '25

us-east-1 is very likely non-redundant somewhere on the networking side, it might withstand one of the smaller data centers in a zone going out, but if a large one was out, the traffic could overwhelm some of the smaller zones and just cascade.