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If websites are slow for you, this is why, AWS is breaking everything (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 75 points 10 months ago (8 children)

So Roblox is the only of those companies that can handle proper region failover if us-east-1 shits the bed? You young ops have gotten soft! Learn to live by ChaosMonkey or die by the Gorilla.

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  • [–] 52 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Yeah, but proper failover and recovery requires additional infrastructure, and that costs money.

    Hopefully a bunch of risk management people are writing I-told-you-so emails to C-suites right now.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago

    AWS is a huge suite of products and services, and there's a lot of old legacy shit running on it.

    Yup, AWS is legacy cloud. It was only recently that they set encryption by default on S3 buckets, before that they were just in the clear by default.

    Cybersecurity and disaster recovery are not directly profitable, so they are almost always neglected in your average shop.

    It's never important until suddenly it's the most important thing in the world.

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  • [–] 24 points 10 months ago

    So Roblox is the only of those companies that can handle proper region failover if us-east-1 shits the bed?

    Either that, or the reports stopped coming in since it's a school day.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago*

    Roblox doesn't really lock down regions unless they are China. The game client can connect to any server they own. It naturally falls back to the server with the least issues without prompts and intervention. If for an even bigger example all US servers were to go offline, the client automatically redirects people to either Europe or Asia based on ping.

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