▲ 652 ▼ If websites are slow for you, this is why, AWS is breaking everything (sh.itjust.works) submitted 10 months ago by StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world 98 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] Boozilla@lemmy.world 29 points 10 months ago (7 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 7 child comments replies: [–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 19 points 10 months ago (2 children) Its crazy, we are seeing unrelated services stop sending emails, issues with DNS, all sorts of strange stuff. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] Boozilla@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent [–] T156@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago Maybe it's cascade effects? Something depends on something else, which depends on a third thing that depends on AWS for something? permalink fedilink source parent [–] Rooster326@programming.dev 8 points 10 months ago (1 child) They want to keep the news of the rally over the weekend as quiet as possible. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 10 months ago* and the epstein files. i heard it dint affect international that much, so its rather covenient. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Carrot@lemmy.today 1 point 10 months ago As someone with a little insider baseball knowledge, it was just a few hours down of DynamoDB and DNS. However, that caused EC2 to go down for ~1 day, which causes pretty much 1/3 of the internet to go down. Once EC2 sorts themselves out, then teams/companies (almost all amazon services use EC2 in the back end) that use EC2 have to get their ducks back in a row, and that can take any span of time, depending on how well their code was written to handle failures + how many people they are willing to pay oncall/overtime. permalink fedilink source parent [+] Boozilla@lemmy.world 1 point 10 months ago [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent
[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 19 points 10 months ago (2 children) Its crazy, we are seeing unrelated services stop sending emails, issues with DNS, all sorts of strange stuff. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] Boozilla@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent [–] T156@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago Maybe it's cascade effects? Something depends on something else, which depends on a third thing that depends on AWS for something? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] T156@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago Maybe it's cascade effects? Something depends on something else, which depends on a third thing that depends on AWS for something? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 8 points 10 months ago (1 child) They want to keep the news of the rally over the weekend as quiet as possible. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 10 months ago* and the epstein files. i heard it dint affect international that much, so its rather covenient. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 10 months ago* and the epstein files. i heard it dint affect international that much, so its rather covenient. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Carrot@lemmy.today 1 point 10 months ago As someone with a little insider baseball knowledge, it was just a few hours down of DynamoDB and DNS. However, that caused EC2 to go down for ~1 day, which causes pretty much 1/3 of the internet to go down. Once EC2 sorts themselves out, then teams/companies (almost all amazon services use EC2 in the back end) that use EC2 have to get their ducks back in a row, and that can take any span of time, depending on how well their code was written to handle failures + how many people they are willing to pay oncall/overtime. permalink fedilink source parent
