AWS us-east-1 Outages
Discussions center on the frequent outages and unreliability of AWS's us-east-1 region, comparisons to other regions and availability zones, and advice against deploying new services there.
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you put your sh*t in us-east-1 you need to plan for this :)
Honestly? "Nothing because all our vendors are on us-east-1 too"
Doesn't the same condition apply to AWS, only they're called "availability zones?"
If you're using AWS then you are most likely using us-east-1 there is no escape. When big problems happen on us-east-1 it affect most of AWS services.
Anywhere other than us-east-1 in my experience is rock solid.
This is true, but I think it would be more acceptable if the region were down vs the single AZ
You're confusing region with AZ. They've never had a multi-region outage (yet).
Doesn't this mean you are not regionally isolated from us-east-1?
It's region-specific -- it spans across availability zones, not regions.
Multi-AZ doesn't help when a whole region is down, unless you're referring to multi-region AZs (e.g us-east-1a and us-west-1a)