[mattbillenstein]

AWS has had a couple cascading EBS failures in us-east-1 years ago which affected a lot of services since it's a foundational building block of the whole system. It's been a reason to prefer instance storage for quite awhile imo.

I've run most everything in us-west-2 Oregon the last 5+ years and I can't remember a similar sort of outage there in that time-frame.

A widespread world-wide outage like is happening now on Azure is a red flag imo.

[outworlder]

> It's been a reason to prefer instance storage for quite awhile imo.

Yuck. Please tell me you don't do that anymore (unless for specialized workloads where you don't care if an instance loses data due to a shutdown).

[mattbillenstein]

I still do it all the time - but I consider each instance disposable and all data is replicated to at least two other hosts in different AZs.

[cheeze]

Outages happen all the time on both of the providers - they just don't happen globally and usually it isn't a global outage.

One that does come to mind is the S3 outage a few years ago, which was essentially a global outage.