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Anyone else having a bad day because of the AWS us-east-1 outage?

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  1. snowcrash
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    Maybe I've just been lucky, but upstream outages have always been neutral or maybe even good days for me. You mean I can't work and it's not my fault? Usually there's other stuff to do, so it's...

    Maybe I've just been lucky, but upstream outages have always been neutral or maybe even good days for me. You mean I can't work and it's not my fault? Usually there's other stuff to do, so it's like an enforced break on regular tasks, so it's a bit of a change. Though these days none of my services are on AWS.

    5 votes
  2. midi
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    Yep. Left the office (in office day) in favor of my favorite brewery. Currently monitoring our services from slack and Statuspage. What an awful day. Texted a fellow tech friend from the office....

    Yep. Left the office (in office day) in favor of my favorite brewery. Currently monitoring our services from slack and Statuspage. What an awful day.

    Texted a fellow tech friend from the office.
    Me: Fucking AWS. I need a beer.
    Him: I’m already there!
    Me: See you in 20

    5 votes
  3. g33kphr33k
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    "Put your data in the cloud" they said. "It's much safer and more resilient in the cloud" they said. We've got a petabyte on site and failover with a different ISP. I have more outages and issues...

    "Put your data in the cloud" they said. "It's much safer and more resilient in the cloud" they said.

    We've got a petabyte on site and failover with a different ISP. I have more outages and issues with the hosted stuff than anything else. Why is it the big boys and girls have all the woes?

    The AWS issue hasn't had any effect on my stuff but the hosted HR system login is hit and miss which I'm guessing this is the cause.

    5 votes
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    knocklessmonster
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    No, but my company, who are a mostly Azure/M365 firm on cloud/SaaS side had some issues when the Azure portal died. I hope these aren't part of something bigger.

    No, but my company, who are a mostly Azure/M365 firm on cloud/SaaS side had some issues when the Azure portal died. I hope these aren't part of something bigger.

    3 votes
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      midi
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      Damn I wasn’t aware Azure was impacted. I decided to take a look and their status page indicated it was fine. Maybe my timing was off. Or theirs was. When AWS goes down I love to dig into what is...

      Damn I wasn’t aware Azure was impacted. I decided to take a look and their status page indicated it was fine. Maybe my timing was off. Or theirs was.

      When AWS goes down I love to dig into what is and isn’t impacted, was the only reason I looked. I wasn’t even experiencing any issues tbh

      1. knocklessmonster
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        This was a few hours last week, which while not long, was sort of a big deal. It wasn't my problem so I didn't really look into it, lol.

        This was a few hours last week, which while not long, was sort of a big deal. It wasn't my problem so I didn't really look into it, lol.

        1 vote
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    Ganymede
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    I'm often grateful for the fact that all of my infra is in us-west-1. It almost never has issues.

    I'm often grateful for the fact that all of my infra is in us-west-1. It almost never has issues.

    3 votes
    1. midi
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      Yeah our rep suggested migrating everything… whew

      Yeah our rep suggested migrating everything… whew

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    Joshua
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    Yeah I was in the middle of doing something when I noticed the search stopped working. I thought it was just my browser at first but then more and more things stopped loading and there were api...

    Yeah I was in the middle of doing something when I noticed the search stopped working. I thought it was just my browser at first but then more and more things stopped loading and there were api errors all over. Not too long after that it showed up on the status page.

    2 votes
    1. midi
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      I was on a call trying to set up some Jira automations and they wouldn’t load. I just figured Jira was bugging and ended the call. Hah. Then I saw Slack… It didn’t hit me because we’re new-ish to...

      I was on a call trying to set up some Jira automations and they wouldn’t load. I just figured Jira was bugging and ended the call. Hah. Then I saw Slack…

      It didn’t hit me because we’re new-ish to Jira cloud, migrated from server in 2021, and it wouldn’t be the first time something was down with it.

      I miss server so much.

      1 vote
  7. diabolicallyrandom
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    I thankfully had today off. My spouse is away on business (we work for same company) so I was taxicab today for my son's orthodontics appointments and dental cleanings. All my juniors are having...

    I thankfully had today off. My spouse is away on business (we work for same company) so I was taxicab today for my son's orthodontics appointments and dental cleanings.

    All my juniors are having to deal with any fallout, and they aren't allowed to page me.

    Tis nice.

    2 votes
  8. Xerxas
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    I'm taking an extended coffee break because there's nothing to do but wait :(

    I'm taking an extended coffee break because there's nothing to do but wait :(

    1 vote
  9. TransientSignal
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    Pretty minor all things considered, but I often do a lesson on Duolingo here and there throughout my day when I need a break and every single time I've completed one, Duolingo hangs before sending...

    Pretty minor all things considered, but I often do a lesson on Duolingo here and there throughout my day when I need a break and every single time I've completed one, Duolingo hangs before sending me to the lesson complete screen and after a few minutes, spits me back to the lesson select screen without counting the completion of the lesson.

    At least I'm getting some extra practice on that German dative tense!

    1 vote
  10. [3]
    Checkmate
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    Define bad day. I just forwarded that link to people, said there was nothing I can do and Amazon was working on it and had a nice relaxing afternoon thinking how glad I am to not work at Amazon.

    Define bad day.

    I just forwarded that link to people, said there was nothing I can do and Amazon was working on it and had a nice relaxing afternoon thinking how glad I am to not work at Amazon.

    1 vote
    1. [2]
      midi
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      I love this for you. I currently have a large vendor customer pushing for a meeting tomorrow to ask how we can mitigate this in the future. Would love to say: go halfsies with us on a time...

      I love this for you. I currently have a large vendor customer pushing for a meeting tomorrow to ask how we can mitigate this in the future.

      Would love to say: go halfsies with us on a time machine, send us back a couple years before we decided to move everything to the cloud.

      1. Checkmate
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        This is why I'm glad I don't have to deal with humans outside the company.

        This is why I'm glad I don't have to deal with humans outside the company.

        1 vote
  11. Jameszgreat
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    Having the same issue getting stuck in a login loop.

    Having the same issue getting stuck in a login loop.