[PeterZaitsev]

This highlights risks of extreme consolidation - even if Atlas customers were not affected it is natural for them to be concerned after announcement overwhelming web site or support channels.

More independent MongoDB DBaaS providers is what would offer true redundancy in this case, though it is highly restricted due to SSPL license change.

Hopefully FerretDB will be successful building feasible alternative

[nextworddev]

“Extreme consolidation” - wait till us-East-1 goes down

[_sword]

Happened in 2012 after a big thunderstorm and took most of the internet down

[rezonant]

Amazon sells it cheap compared to other regions-- it's economically incentivized for us-east-1 to take out half of the Internet.

[PeterZaitsev]

Yep. Though to be fair AWS provides options for multi region availability.

What did not happen (yet) is complete AWS meltdown

[didip]

Friends don’t let friends run on us-east-1. Consolidate on us-west-1 or us-west-2 instead.

[bobnamob]

us-west-1 wouldn’t be my first choice either for <other_reasons>

[booi]

us-west-1 seems small. They routinely run out of the instance size we request and the spot market seems.. unruly

[hoofhearted]

Virginia is for lovers. Ohio is for uptime.