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The worst case: What would happen if AWS us-east-1 went offline?

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  1. mat
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    That article doesn't really talk about what would happen if us-east-1 went offline, it's mostly about how us-east-1 might go offline. Which is rather less interesting. I would very much hope that...

    That article doesn't really talk about what would happen if us-east-1 went offline, it's mostly about how us-east-1 might go offline. Which is rather less interesting.

    I would very much hope that anyone with actually society-critical stuff - if indeed anyone is running emergency co-ordination systems or medical stuff or whatever - on AWS is already replicated over multiple regions. If we lost some businesses that is sucky for the people whose jobs that represents but far worse things can happen.

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