They should be able to mitigate that at the border. Whatever load balancing solution is in place should just drop connections before they get to a point that can overload the system. That they haven't, or can't, makes me think it's more complicated than "it's hard to bring it back up when everyone is trying to get back in"

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cheeze a day ago | parent | next [-]

Agree. For a large cloud provider, the thundering herd retry-storm is pretty standard failure scenario and a "greatest hit" outage at this point.

Throttle the hell out of everything, then slowly ramp traffic back up.

I'm confident they've already tried this exact thing. This is cloud 101 in 2026.

	▲	Eji1700 a day ago \| parent [-]
		So i know fuck all and am basically just rubbernecking the car crash at this point, but I would've agreed however they just dropped this gem: > Current status: As part of our ongoing efforts to advance the recoverability of our frontend servers, we’re evaluating traffic controls that can be applied to increase capacity and stability. This includes traffic optimization actions such as traffic throttling, protocol adjustments, and failover routing intended to improve stability in active regions. In parallel, were expanding internal testing to track activity within a contained environment to improve traffic monitoring and issue detection capabilities. That...kinda reads like they're just trying it? I'm assuming there's something being missed or it's a "fuck it try it again" but I do wonder if some story is going to come out of people in the decision making seats who don't know what they're doing.

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franktankbank 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Could be a bunch of dumb dumbs.