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Posted by christhecaribou 1 day ago

AWS North Virginia data center outage – resolved(www.cnbc.com)
https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status?t=2026-05-07

https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2026/05/08/aws-warns-of...

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/amazon-clou...

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sitzkrieg 9 hours ago|
using aws since s3 came out and i’ve yet to see any major company do multi az failover in any capacity whatsoever. default region ftw
jedberg 9 hours ago||
We were doing multi-AZ and multi-region failover at Netflix all the way back in 2011:

https://netflixtechblog.com/the-netflix-simian-army-16e57fba...

yomismoaqui 11 hours ago||
How many nines of are we at this year?
toast0 11 hours ago|
Eight eights!
matt3210 9 hours ago||
Right, cooling.
nikcub 12 hours ago||
both realtime markets where multi-AZ is hard?
kikimora 5 hours ago|
Order books had to run on a single server for performance reasons. Similarly a realtime multiplayer game.
jeffbee 11 hours ago||
I don't see anything on downdetector suggesting this was particularly disruptive.
aussieguy1234 12 hours ago||
Once known for having super reliable services, I've heard this company is scrambling to re hire some of the engineers they overconfidently "replaced" with AI.

When customers pay for cloud services, they expect them to be maintained by competent engineers.

edit: Not sure why the downvotes. If you fire the engineers that have been keeping your systems running reliably for years, what do you expect to happen?

wmf 6 hours ago|
It's a cooling equipment failure. Equipment is going to fail.
ElenaDaibunny 3 hours ago||
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tcp_handshaker 14 hours ago||
I bet post-mortem will say vibe coding confused fahrenheit and celsius, we run too hot...
geodel 9 hours ago|
Now I totally understand the issue. I will set temperature 70K. Using SI unit of temperature is the best practice.
fukinstupid 7 hours ago||
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OhMeadhbh 12 hours ago|
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tomhow 12 hours ago|
Please don't do this here.
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