> Never heard of this from AWS or Azure.

AWS does it more efficiently; it takes down many startups at a time when us-east-1 goes down.

stingraycharles an hour ago | parent | next [-]

That’s an entirely different type of problem, and avoidable by just using us-east-2 (I still don’t understand why people default to us-east-1 unless they require some highly specific services).

	▲	aloha2436 an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Is it that easily avoidable? A lot of AWS's control plane seems to have dependencies on us-east-1, or at least that's what it's looked like as a non-us-east-1 user during recent outages.
	▲	MattGaiser an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Sympathy. Railway is going to have numerous people blaming them for this outage. When us-east-1 fails, it is headline news, so you are not to blame.

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yandie 21 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

During my 5 years of my startup, we had only 1 outage due to AWS because we picked us-west-2 as the primary reason. If anyone starting a company and picks us-east-1 as the primary reason, they should be fired. There's absolutely no reason to be in that region.

	▲	tempest_ 16 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Why do people want to be in that region? Is it the default or something? I know some workloads help to be colocated but all these places are connected by fiber and every cloud has a worldwide CDN it seems.

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xavdid 16 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If my cloud provider brings my startup down, it's my problem. If they bring all the startups down, that's their problem.

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mgfist 44 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

And we all celebrate it since we can't do any work