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by nextworddev 917 days ago
“Extreme consolidation” - wait till us-East-1 goes down
4 comments
_sword 917 days ago
Happened in 2012 after a big thunderstorm and took most of the internet down
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rezonant 917 days ago
Amazon sells it cheap compared to other regions-- it's economically incentivized for us-east-1 to take out half of the Internet.
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PeterZaitsev 917 days ago
Yep. Though to be fair AWS provides options for multi region availability.

What did not happen (yet) is complete AWS meltdown

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didip 917 days ago
Friends don’t let friends run on us-east-1. Consolidate on us-west-1 or us-west-2 instead.
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bobnamob 917 days ago
us-west-1 wouldn’t be my first choice either for <other_reasons>
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booi 916 days ago
us-west-1 seems small. They routinely run out of the instance size we request and the spot market seems.. unruly
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hoofhearted 916 days ago
Virginia is for lovers. Ohio is for uptime.
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