> The trigger was outages in cloud services with sometimes significant impacts on other internet services. Shortly before, an approximately 15-hour outage of the AWS cloud in the US meant that not only Amazon's own streaming services but also Atlassian, Docker, Epic Games, and the Signal messenger were unavailable or severely restricted.
If I remember correctly, it was a us-east-1 issue specifically. Why is everyone hosted in us-east-1, especially in Europe where stable and reliable regions are available (eu-west-1, eu-west-3, ...)?
kalleboo•31m ago
The issue originated in us-east-1 but had a huge blast radius beyond that - e.g. it took SES down.
itopaloglu83•46m ago
It’s a very thin and a political line between being a gatekeeper and a very successful company.
Are we soon going to say Spotify, ASML, and Carl Zeiss are also gatekeepers?
baka367•30m ago
In the age of staple shenanigans from the US with tariffs and AI prohibition, I find this to be an adequate response.
enz•1h ago
If I remember correctly, it was a us-east-1 issue specifically. Why is everyone hosted in us-east-1, especially in Europe where stable and reliable regions are available (eu-west-1, eu-west-3, ...)?
kalleboo•31m ago