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by encoderer 3245 days ago
Cronitor saw our customers first impacted at 4:29, largely recovered by 5:04.

Another interesting thing is that AZ identifiers are randomized from customer-to-customer so when people report their failures, like here in this thread, it can sometimes seem like a problem is region-wide when in fact it's isolated to an AZ.

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I don't follow your point about randomized AZs. I agree they are randomized and have observed and correlated region letters across multiple customers/accounts. How does that make it seem like a problem is region wide though?
When several people report failures, each in their own AZ, if you don't realize they're randomized, you can assume many/all AZs are impacted.
Got your point now. Thanks for replying.