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by zedpm 1745 days ago
Oh no, it's not down, it's just "experiencing elevated error rates" /s. After the appalling outage they had last spring, it's too soon to be dealing with this again. And there have been a couple of small outages in between then and now.
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stingraycharles 1745 days ago
Seems to be related to an AWS outage though.
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zedpm 1745 days ago
The AWS issue in US-West-2 is only affecting a single AZ, according to them. A single AZ should never take down a production service.
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codeduck 1745 days ago
AWS single az failures can frequently cause general failures across other AWS services like lambda, Kinesis etc. Your app might tolerate the failure but be taken out by events beyond your control.

Ideally you'd want a way to fail traffic over to another region.

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